When Dilys was conscious of the crude cartoon-
like figure that kept rearing its head in her
Mind’s secret caverns for punishing torture
– A dark blind Cyclops draining her sex’s eye
Of its power that might help his start to see –
She realized that she had to pity and
Forgive all of Nature’s pain or else be damned
For being blind herself: to her Lord’s simplest
But hardest-to-live defense of all sinners
Who know not what they do + so will do it.
(from “Raponani” . a verse novel by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 