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I The earth trembled beneath Port-au-Prince and his faith in the Saints and the Spirits of his Ancestors trembled then fell, unnerved,…
You have the same name as him. My conscript tongue has practice in bitter acrobatics, transitioning from close to close so often to…
VI roaring seas of cane rows whisper shouted echoes of Harding's reign are replaced by the chaotic clatter of houses heights and terraces…
i the devil leapt out of her dress, the w o myn w o m an fled ii the devil leapt out of her dress, she left it on side of the road iii he,…
Slip me into ice-blue satin pajamas and close the lid Say I was wise in the guise of “little girl lost” Call down the rain and upon the…
Twilight creeps upon the walls. Fires extinguish while the rain falls. Hell opens up her mind, to keep the talents of mankind. Here lies…
Even now on suburban terrace of afternoon brooding it bruises, even lacerates those pristine images of barefoot childhood. It tumbles the…
for precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little and there a little…. Isaiah 28:13 We are not…
The rumble of drums The riddle of the fiddle The clean whistle Of bamboo pipe Mento music like news Bessie Smith singing the blues Reggae,…
A kind of self blessing spawns in the glare, torn from reflections across a drain where raindrops gather to feed water hyacinths. Feeding…
I got stuck on the Brooklyn Bridge and my driver just sat like stone to the honks and heckles of the horn-head motorist strapped into his…
don’t enclose me within the palisades of time. don’t imprison me within the barricades of your mind. the constriction of your limiting web…
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