Pe‘ahi Light
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Pe‘ahi Light

C2ProficientSeptember 25, 20266 min
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One. Half filled with sand, a karate t-bowl, placed on a writing desk.

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Brushed in three strokes, where the black ends of each stroke flare into the void.

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A1 53%A2 32%B1 9%B2 6%C1 0%
  • 94% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 95 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
  • 42 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

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0:00

Hello, my name is Arthur Z. And this is my poem, Piahi Light. One. Half filled with sand, a karate t-bowl, placed on a writing desk. No incense smokes the air. Above, on a wall, heart. Brushed in three strokes, where the black ends of each stroke flare into the void.

0:29

We zigzagged across a dry stream bed. That night a breeze surged like incoming surf. Waves of rain crashed, subsided, plunged. Now in piai light rain patters the fronds, glistens the fishtail palms, the stilt root palms, the white elephant palm, A palm 20 inches tall, risen out of a split coconut.

1:02

Drizzle, rain, downpour. I have no words for these kinds of rain. I mark a conch shell doorstop, a dictionary of etymology. Rain from Old English, rain.

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