Advantage rungs for mango pluck scale so
our legs splay favor bad | dreams ‘n’ fears shuck
this, take that storm ocean horde^like our starry
drift nature.
/ Evening lime
calls assume all snakes respect the rules
of the garden > core the apple, curl round
next the tail ! you don’t have to Like it.
Smarmy business.
^
In the city house the Expats rented Ma said
they worried about scowls or smiles crossing
local lanes. The heel of cows? in black sauce
made to simmer promised pleasure Fingers
again!
/ Molecule dance
break high . place + order worked till missing
the space bar at their zoo they left our jungle;
snap not so Ma let go her wish^serving virtue.
^
Village huddle . father selling daughter shares
how this could happen ? yield^trust petals flat so
to this day pesticide removes the ring.
/ No rope plain
text explaining . remains papaw^like left outside
for seedy carrion beak House keeping!
Borders wired Agua Agua! midday salting
meat; night wraps cold around Turn back
extremities | futures moan so even the cactus
males reach for female blankets. Spine deals.
– W.W.
YUH RAP SO (0.9)
He had grown up with death all around him, yet
None of the wheel-crushed dogs + cats he had known
In the streets of Georgetongue had prepared his bones
For their rattling recognition of his fate,
A recognition now felt as a fit, swift
& everlasting at once, with its fevers
Rushing through his postsomnial brain to leave
Their punctures + scabs + scars as record and
Rehearsal – of things gone + things gone beyond
(from “Raponani” by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 