Our road kills pass nowhere close to Happening
Now flash flood | or shelter chattel you could hire
along with goat ‘n’ children fleeing army
startover fire . rear ranking so.
Blood finding out ‘n’ down the mouth What if
the satisfaction felt right? of a motionless caiman
caught the sweep of the City Market clock; hands
stopped in culture shock.
Nothing our Walcott
paint tubes couldn’t fix . his billowy sea grape
news : Crusoe mending net, fish oil tomorrow
haul yuh cuirass.
\ Waterfall . river . creek ~ clueless
how romance consumes we shadow faith in
fashion follow ~ ocean found | native ties
like for jaguar, pirate stained teeth left.
*
Seriously, how to shop^keep these shores ? old
harbour planks, crab crossing crowd; plantation
fat pipe need; nakedness with On ‘n’ off leaf.
Dog heat + dog bowl + poodle pompom – only
in the coin^count chamber | under the troolie
folding roof Where's your main breaker?
mormon callers ask.
\ iCard hard, pick
axe all you want; flesh ‘n’ spirit rent make
room for whole coarse graining | Hey, hey
wait! nah . breathe the blue . chill drink
nah.
– W.W.
YUH RAP SO (1.5)
Not freedom of choice but unfree perverse will,
Dilys decided, after months of research
Into Trauma, is what triggers hell on Earth
Or Naraka’s stoic sense that all life is
Hell’s hot winter . set, writ, no why, no because,
Just an inescapable meaningless trap
Like the brand-new university, perhaps,
Where she was pursuing Liberal Studies
& Ant–apology (Understanding Us
As Others – them–ants)
(from “Raponani” by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 