In gulley stream, ways found through favour ? who
let the feeder smack ‘n’ wrap the bottom ‘n’ angina
of island states ? how for tea cup holders do mermaids
craft folk . shake serve jamoon wine.
The well it means comme protecteur treat islanders
for herb in steupsy . habitude saved printing : grass
high so cutting class and style, regnant shades of lizard
green not worth a worm screw.
*Pen upsetting noise ! this early morning, old stars might
wax to trickle; ear bones brittle, sound waves out of shore.
Till the next dream swab come, test its colon work
inside you, measure the length it goes for sinecure.
Paths
you own, search beams interweaving < behind the grip
grind forward lines, help clean old wounds ‘im scrabble.
Smarm with impress . which sub contract stick could
lick ‘im lattice back to ‘im House business ? altCrown
rewiring < cane siding; left turn from scant road
march pant . run past the colour of night; other home
rule arrangements.
– W.W.
QAT
Holding up a sheet of white paper, Qat says
M’sr DeGroot, what make you believe you dis?
If I be black woman, you’s a pink man.
DeGroot has to laugh: You’re right: we pink stinkers became
White from the moment we invented you blacks.
*IF THE âne had said ‘Black’, and not ‘blacks’, Qat might
Not have decided right then to change her job.
Voyons, she's her mother's vraie fille, sensitive
To the mists of mépris par condescendance.
(from “Charon’s Anchors” by Brian Chan, 2018)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 