What was the passion fruit named before the Europeans renamed it?

“What was the passion fruit named before the Europeans renamed it?” is about loss. Colonization took so much from our cultures, and I wonder how far it goes. The passionfruit was named so because the Europeans gave the flower that name in order to teach natives about the passion of Jesus Christ. The poem asks questions about colonization and ends with the speaker holding the flower and thinking about her father, pulling on its ten petals—exploring how colonization permeates our personal and intimate lives. “Excused Absences” talks about an inability or unwillingness to join a movement that may not have the same regard for the undocumented immigrant. A previous version of it was published in a zine called St. Sucia.