Posts Archive for June 2007
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The land ripens on Molokai. I saw it ripen once before my eyes, when we passed from the west to the east, along Route 460, the Maunaloa Highway. It ripened out of shrubland and thin, balding patches of kawelu; it gained a soft and greener luminosity as we drove, holding the shore east of Kaunakakai, rising to meet the surf, sick and high above heady cliffs; and it ripened like the most beautiful thing you have ever seen.
Our first day on the island we bought two cram-full crates of papaya …