Cloud Permutations
“What was it? A murky brown liquid, distilled from a root, a cousin of the common pepper and nothing like it? How could you describe the smell, earthy, gamey, a little like medicine and a little like an unpleasant serum? The Israeli poet Lior Tirosh, who in his journeys once even deigned to visit the remote islands of Oceania, had tried to capture a visit to a Kava Bar: A shack, with corrugated iron roof (Tirosh wrote)Low wooden benches, earth-made floor The light of distant stars and cigarettes...: A kava bar. Coconut shells are lifted and replaced on the counterThen comes the rhythmic spitting An orchestrated hackingAs of dying frogs: Slowly stillness settlesWhispered conversations ebb and flow And rain, falling lightlySilences the leaves about to fall. The spitting, it must be said, was necessary: it allowed the kava drinker to connect with his ancestors, to share the kava and enter the dream-state described as ‘listening to the kava’. Kava bound a society together; it allowed the men and women to gather before sunset at the nakamal, to drink, to share a mental state that relaxed the body and facilitated conversation …Port Cargo, of course, had plenty of kava-bars.MoreLess
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