kamikaze

• a shaven head / full of powerful incantations
• but half way there, she thought, ... he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats / strung out like bunting
• a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.
• and though he came back / my mother never spoke again ... as though he no longer existed,
• And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered / which had been the better way to die.