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A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV)

A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV) A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV) Mark DeFoe Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 1995, p. 17 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0037 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436612/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:05 GMT from JHU Libraries A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV) Don Ho oiled A-lo-ha on the Musak and though I lusted for Hawaiian shorts I bought instead a long sleeve oxford shirt. In the mall, palms grow. Oiled maidens vie for Miss West Virginia Luau. Beauty, their cells call, is the product of eons, will be revealed in due time, but the crowd eats them up like poi, like roast suckling pig. Once these hills, lost islands in the westward flow of promise, were not scalped for malls. The dead were planted here, lifted to greet the sun. Looking up, I remember that old sea that surged one hundred feet above my head. And what were you saying, oh sweet, short blonde, contestant number three, whose nipples winked from your flowering halter? That your genes, exquisite as they are, speak only the tongue of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV)

DeFoe, Mark.
Appalachian Review , Volume 23 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV) Mark DeFoe Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 1995, p. 17 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0037 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436612/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:05 GMT from JHU Libraries A Polynesia Moment While Coming Out of the Hilltop Mall (Clarksburg, WV) Don Ho oiled A-lo-ha on the Musak and though I lusted for Hawaiian shorts I bought instead a long sleeve oxford shirt. In the mall, palms grow. Oiled maidens vie for Miss West Virginia Luau. Beauty, their cells call, is the product of eons, will be revealed in due time, but the crowd eats them up like poi, like roast suckling pig. Once these hills, lost islands in the westward flow of promise, were not scalped for malls. The dead were planted here, lifted to greet the sun. Looking up, I remember that old sea that surged one hundred feet above my head. And what were you saying, oh sweet, short blonde, contestant number three, whose nipples winked from your flowering halter? That your genes, exquisite as they are, speak only the tongue of

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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