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Merapi
from ARCHIPELAGO: We live on islands that move / with mountains’ trembles / smoking since they rose from the sea / from which we crawled to them.
Setia
from SETIA: The old man he say: / “‘So I take her home. We feed her / as we feed my granddaughter / who has same age. / She eat not food of crocodile, / only food of my granddaughter.’” / The old man laughed, / said to me in English, / “She is person. They are as sisters now yes."
Ferdy
from SETIA: “‘That is my opinion,’ in Indonesia we say, ‘You have / yours.’” / And Ferdy bore me deeper down the Mahakam, / into the Borneo jungle.
Longhouse
from STRATEGY FOR VICTORY: We stopped for a night in the longhouse / where the Dayaks live in congress / each family extended among itself
Son of Borneo
from SON OF BORNEO: That a man turns / into bread / wonders us not. / I saw my father wriggle / by the Mahakam, / strike the intruder / and eat him.
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