The Search

—Garden Island Newspaper, Hawaii, March 23, 2006

by Pam Woolway


I.

misting rain clouded mountaintop,
a grim tableau, helicopter
slowly flies
upriver

circles dam, thoughts
and flowers
twirl
e a r t h w a r d.


II.

Search continued Tuesday:
Four Kauaians
missing

Seven days after a flash flood
swept


Two homes away in Kilauea.
Search

efforts ended at dark

Yesterday.