Unmarried, Vijinie’s Aunt swore she learnt about love^
life wind altering from their Country songs . radio
waves Leela's pond rippling, tide flat Estate days.
\ How to turn sixteen
seventeen rose root knotted ? hold^give in sticky cane
stalk leaflessness.
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On old plantation paths car’vans pass like buffalo
swerving fast; tricky, verge stepping single.
\ Outside the belt
felt body facing consequence . book word often
not recognised | collateral too, like weedsallover
the heritage place.
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Under burq^scarf cover . modus found to stand
by stitchings loose. What are we if not fiction^thread
needlers?
\ Hibiscus in the desert,
for centuries the garden man fared trading dry
spell secrets . watering can relief | over in minutes.
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Models of endurance hard to find ? if not Who are
we period labor bearers.
\ Wombs believe,
shadows slip advice . whose head to swell, foam
balls fluff | witches land . slide into the arms of planet anger
dust. Dub so, loop so.
– W.W.
YUH RAP SO (3.1)
Later, Judd would ask Dilys if she’d believed
She could get away with that sort of fancy
Even twee metaphysical turn of phrase
In producting an academic treatise:
He was into Communication as Form:
Just the facts, ma’am: hadn’t super-modern Wim
Wenders said America has colonized
Our consciousness (a fact we’d best get used to)?
So what you see is what you get was what Ladd
Was colonized by: it made things easy and
Rhymed with his fascination over Choisisme’s
Sharp cutaway from dull Catholicism
– Although Alain could have taken Judd to task
For not getting Seeing in Marienbad
(from “Raponani” by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 