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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…
“dub poetry has been described as…‘over-compensation for deprivation’” Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry…
Wunna tink ol’ man ain’t special like he don’t got stars in he back pocket, too Like he can’t move like dese young boys fresh blood hot and…
they say it is not here at this chance meeting exhausted in leaky craft. they say it is not here on this journey vacant blushing with each…
She says, assuming all of us Miami-ites as well as Anglicans, that those of us who were in church on Sunday August 23rd and not at home…
A woman holding a golden apple in her palms has crossed the boundary, uncertain yet hopeful. She waits there, glances back at stony…
Like the cruelty of clothes belted strapped buttoned down zipped up these flat pressed women ironed hard metal smoothed starched of impulse…
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