“Orbiting, the sun itself has a sun
as the moon an earth, a man a mind.
And life is not a matter of a mother only.”
- Martin Carter, The Great Dark (1973)
All those years good parts of him kept
shackled till . leaning in full cleavage opens
over his dull brain | a tiger child pokes its head
out . proGod fearers call in law ‘n’ fodder.
\ Hours angle fast while bowl gold fishing.
On our island dog food for dogs expensive so
groomers make do with corner calls (+ haul
yuh bottom scraping).
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Bass line booked contracts swell @horn
alert Now Boarding | apps clipped@hip
set to dub the world; wipe plates together.
\ Embedded tales – suiciders in saffron last
wrap, the Resurrection – beep longer than forest
birds in the flight plans of Office obstinates.
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Dome safe . what issues wriggle in the air, yeast^
like for whose infection ? whose crows for hire
dive^strip orders waiting.
\ For history ignored costs mount @portals
forward webbing. See what happens ? in heat
itch annals twerk head scratch . @fowl^
coop stern wings flutter, gripping.
– W.W.
YUH RAP SO (5.2)
The impersonal perfume of the hollow
At the centre of all personhood was now
What at first wafted then zigzagged like a bolt
Through his veins + into his core + he felt
No real shock, only disappointment that he,
A prince of detachment, he of all people
But of none of their superstitious tribes, should
Automatically gasp a cry to God
For a stay of execution – for it was
All a knot of murderers + murderees,
The sadomasochistic contract of breath:
The trees nodded, but to their parrots’ bald yes
Was added what already flowed through their veins
A banal no to affirm the innocence
Of all tenants of the jungle’s simple nest
(from “Raponani”, by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 