Etna Unveiled

On Saturday we introduced some friends to Hawaiian food -- 7 dishes from lomi lomi salmon to kalua pork to tako poke. What a delight it was to see them enjoy a taste of our homeland!

Over mai tais and an Italian card game called Scopa, an idea was hatched for all of us around the table to collaborate on a poem via email with each writing a stanza in sequence. Within less than 24 hours since our parting, we gave verbal birth to "Etna Unveiled."




Etna Unveiled

I played hide and seek
with towering Etna today
behind clouds, or trees

She hid herself
beneath a shawl
of silken snow

And, slowly, slowly
revealed her passive beauty
from my balcony below

Taunting, teasing
her surrealistic image
loomed, then disappeared.

Uncloaked, peaceful
and insignificant
before the fiery goddess I stand.

- S. Jonas, E. Chisari, P. Novak, J. LeBlanc & R. LeBlanc