Dan Taulapapa McMullin is an artist and poet from American Samoa. His recent book of poems, Coconut Milk (University of Arizona Press, 2013), was on the American Library Association’s Rainbow List Top Ten Books of the Year. His current projects include Aue Away, an art installation commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and 100 Tikis, an art appropriation video addressing the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty.
Photo: George Moga
No.
Nothing.
Nothing on a really tall chair; a chair with very long legs; up to the sky, which was empty.
And down fell fragrance; fragrance of flowers, although there were no fl…