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29 August 2021

Bablis - malanGREGORY BABLIS
| Ples Singsing

Patterning the water
Ripples
Bouncing off the surface
Reflections
Rolling to the shallows

Waves
Doorway to a safer place
Coral lagoon
Giving cooling shade
Trees
Sulka spirit of place

Malan
German colonial
Zungen / Tongue Point
Popular Tok Pisin descriptor
Raun wara

Baining head waters
Madaingepes
Who came here first?
Mother Earth.

Written Saturday 1 May 2021, sitting underneath shade trees at Malan raunwara

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