One lifetime only a world without wars, and peace to sustain, you see – no other territory to conquer – the tree growing taller...
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Cyril Dabydeen
Phases of the moon. Again mirrors. Worlds in her.
Mount Everest: She was a mother hen and the other mountains were chicks under her wings – Tenzing Norgay Shimla was where I wanted to be, like nowhere else in the northwest Himalayas – where the houses stood on precipices, […]
ODE TO HIPPOCRATES Who’s Hippocrates, I know, in Crete or someplace else – calling out to the Sirens, the Sea’s own and asking you for healing ways, the mind or spirit’s, not the body’s own. Oh, the body, and […]
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. Soren Kierkegaard I The Europeans left with a vengeance, what I said to Lia. Now a new political atmosphere marred our lives with land masses falling apart and going into the ocean, it seemed […]
“Sometimes we revolutionaries are alone; even our children see us as strangers.”– Che Guevara The “guest speaker” was coming; and the Party bosses were at it again. Hush-hush everything seemed, or sounded. But I also wanted it […]
— No language is neutral Derek Walcott To my students at the local university I announced that we would be reading the essay “My Canada,” and, who is the author (I’d told them previously)? “That girl from India,” blared out […]
Burning hot it keeps becoming, and Professor Ivor and I have been traipsing around the island. Tall, angular, and English to the core, the Professor says he wants to learn about creole ways, and grins. “Really, Ivor?” “I do.” […]
