Afakasi

Salient Magazine

Jul 8, 2024

1 min read

By Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson

In your malaga, I feel seen

Afakasi speaks

So I am heard

I said I would stop calling myself that

But here we are

Branded “half”

But I am whole

A whole meal of a body

A whole mouthful of a name

So “afakasi” doesn’t split me

How Samoan are you?

fia Palagi

Not fluent in our gagana

As I bend at the knee and serve ipu kī

As I serve, as I serve, as I serve

Fluent in feaus

Fluent in siva

Fluent in fia poko

Nana’s ring slips onto my pinky

Uncle said I inherited her looks

O lo’u tamā said I sound just like her

Better keep my head in those books

Plastic skin

Big mouth

The other day this lady laughed when I told her where my fibres come from

But I weave, but I weave, but I weave

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