waka

Waka -
make this word
a Maori canoe.

Said twice
in Cameroon,
watch it dance.

In Japan
write a
a tanka
句, ku,
you
5
7
5
7
7.

Go to
heaven
in Hawaii,
where Waka's
a lizard goddess.

Nigerians will
walk there, waka,
while spinning
a yarn, a fabu.


Such storytellers, perhaps,
walk high
in the Andes,
passing
sacred Quechuan objects -
waka.