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for Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados “Yet why not say what happened? Pray for the grace of accuracy Vermeer gave to the sun’s…
Reluctantly clicked that confirm button, You penetrated my inbox with instant desire. Ignoring you was no small task, You assaulted my wall…
Thou shalt not covet they neighbour’s ox— You! Even though the ox look good, I mean, real good— It healthy, it healthy, it healthy! When…
Dear God: This is me. I know you remember. I am the one with the bipolar grey. I will get straight to the point (we is say straight to the…
“…artefacts air-brushed from memory, teasing holograms in glass globules, daring translation: What can I make for you of those old bones,…
for Esther on her Poet Laureate 2018 Wherever it grows there is a rose/breathing the sky has nvr been more blue These things are truest in…
In memoriam: Gandolph St. Clair, 1951-2018
Barbados Barbados Spherical axis tilting Blue-green smears One second Pinpoint → United States of America • Barbados o (Yellow and blue…
Put shit in your eye, right so I’d like to stuff ’em; sate my gypsy gullet. But bird’s brains are featherweight, better plied as dusters to…
Meadow Dream. Copyright © 2016 by Shallon Fadlien. (for SF) A story for you— in late afternoon drizzle coming home through familiar Balata…
Seven Worlds. Copyright © 2015 by Gary Butte. “Where are the open spaces now clear sky, the stars, horizons’ distances?” KB, "The…
Sea at Gros Islet. Photo Copyright © 2015 by John Robert Lee. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like…
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