YUH RAP SO (2.0)

        
       
           So freakish Dilys would need to imagine
           How the other nuns might view her secret sin
           Of thanklessness to Jesus + his Mother,
           The benefactors of their sacred shelter
           In Earth's vale of tears – not excluding their own
           Sometimes within vespers-chapel, its drapes drawn
           To dim the room + muffle the guard-dogs’ barks:
           Tears: fate, or one ex-Hindu nun’s Naraka:
           Was this really the club Dilys had needed
           To join? or was she as stray-doggy to God
           As she suspected the other nuns thought her?

       (from “Raponani” . a verse novel by Brian Chan, 2023)

Author: FarJourney Caribbean

Born in Guyana : Wyck Williams writes poetry and fiction. He lives in New York City. The poet Brian Chan lives in Alberta, Canada. View all posts by FarJourney Caribbean