Bougainvillea’s pink crumpled stars
Supernova all around,
Retinal detonations flaunting ethereal fire...
Wild windwards and calm leewards
Are my interdependent extremes.
How can I learn the orchids’ dialect?
Golden masqueraders of Crop Over,
Parading under the stilt-walking sun!
A Seventh Day Adventist,baptised
In the sea,I come all white-drenched
And hungry,prayer-fires in my hands
To worship the naked brown bodies
Of the drowning and soon-to-be drowned.
Calypso birds of paradise,take the pirates’
Scattered gold and blow it to the winds,
On lifetimes of nonchalant splendour!
The earth is an effigy set on fire.
Love, we shall be swimming horses,
Weightless and tameless in the blue...
Teacher,preacher,policeman of desire,
The girl from summer’s edge comes,
Proffering breadfruit,her smile reefed
With secrets,holed with limestone caves.
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