"And in point of fact – there it was – pregnant
again after all these years.”
– Wilson Harris, “The Waiting Room”
Sworn to stay rid of colonizers, then news spread about
a fungus lounge in the pancreas. Send down the mudloggers! clean
deep sea avenues, boom drain experts in route canals.
It’s a card scratch to morrow about : mites gross in
the coils nibbling our huddles . in the cane fields, over pet
fur sheet strandings.
The baldy man who walks angst hands
behind back knows a thing or two URL hurlyburly three
some chewing gum only half tease.
Fowlers on the coast wild ‒ like sand quick rich
marchands, thumbs on Bedouin age wounds ‒ loop ‘n’ pen
merde holds . infinglers understand what this means for colon
passagens / hot in outhouses emission rules.
Meanwhile, asked what happened check tight first
mating, an ex Carib queen posed . hips sealed : too much duck
rubbery. Too much duckrubbery! that’s how iSash'on platforms
glow . crude light, no quarter moons.
Here's the latch : extract spats aside, fat
pledges no longer analog leave little groom for flag raise lady
crab hems . for fleas that pee red on the carpet, the potted
plant seems Oh Dear! BBC metres off . air pocket views.
These vapours, you breast heave, like host
guest courtesy bows, could fade famously the old one cent
stamp way; like my old aunt’s coin change purse . grip
for fish rain days | Ok . who dives well not chest vested?
– W.W.
LESSING
Checking on him from the saddle of his thighs,
Her eyes those of a careful fox ensuring
Its eating of a fellow was in service
To this Other’s need and desire for change from one set
Of buzzing atoms to another: that pure,
For all her grunts, groans and yelps of quasi-words
And her last smile: You me firs Brack. No difflence!
(Her English wider than his Chinese or their
Portuguese.) Other gamblers too must have known
Guanyin’s disinterested generosity
As their Eastern trophy, but not known his afternoon
With her in her busy but well-tended room
Which she turned into the humbling Titanic
Of his hubris of consumerist buying
(from “Charon’s Anchors” by Brian Chan)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 