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Just when we were readying ourselves to fly Calamity coveted corner and crowd A world wind flu blown across borders Battling a curse of…
It is easier to write a poem than to grieve, much easier to Google words to rhyme with grief, easier to create a clever line of toe-curling…
Commuh families… yeah. Kam in. I ain’t pun dem gossip scenes, but u gaw know. Scatta-Out izza man whoz wait till need slow roast he head…
A bunch of surfer dudes, sun-bleached blonde and sun-browned, inch their way across the rocky shore, Soup Bowl bound, tentative as…
When he comes He waits patiently by the door. He knocks softly. Gently. He asks, May I come in? Are you at home? Is now a good time? He…
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…
nowhere is safe never was paradise is lost a figment of some fervent imagination them vs us blame and prayer pointless we have inherited…
“…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…
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