(Mirian's) Age: 3 (4 or 5)
(Koari's ~CO-ree~) Age: 5 (6 or 7)
3-One Idyllic Day
Stay away from that girl
She's trouble.
Yes, Mother
Koari-Naful-Naparaken would
respond to that same old ditty
but his Mother's warnings couldn't
stop him
from gazing at her
during his studies
someday he would run away
and join her
in her beautiful running
Mirian
her sacred name he would murmur
at night when he went to sleep
although she was a few years
younger than him
he'd always known
he would marry her
but until then
he would content himself
with fantasies of just
one idyllic day with her
they would run
and thought-speak or just sit
enjoying each other's company
and he would make her a crown
of Aiata flowers and then she
would tell him all her
hidden secrets in that
one
idyllic
day
