In Micronesia

Women wear colorful Chuukese skirts with diamonds
that are called uroos  made by our ancestors.

Grandmas cook brown rice and chicken pwapwa
which is chicken and turtle
and sometimes pig with seaweed.

Storekeepers have businesses that were started
by the first Micronesian people
who arrived on the island.

Fishermen have the most fancy fishing poles
that have colors like leaves
and were made by grandparents
who took a month to craft them.

Girls wear ruby-colored Chuukese dresses
from Guam that were also worn
by their great-great grandmothers.

Boys go hunting in the forest above a town called Tol,
hunting for goats, sheep, pig and deer
with bows and arrows
all in my place of birth,
Micronesia.

by Resy Kony
7th grade, Na‘au