(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