For Much Of More Not Asking

            “For wheresover the carcase is, there
             will the eagles be gathered together.”
               – Matthew 24 . 28

11/02/2025

Progress in core building runs the same slip^
fall tests – for spasms, role strain, period leaks;
fault found, before you stick a label first
scrape off our given names.

Who doesn’t love a wake ? service food
free gossip rum | grave^floral blouse ‘n’ shirts
bring us close to Gone! in tension; let down
bearers sifting memories.

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Poulomi born in Europe, Caribbean raised
lived and works in Canada, the States; ‘dress
shifts stitched to frame her resumé ! who swears
prints of origin (foot, mud) hardly matter.

Elbow duty on toilet seat jaw propping
no longer pays; nor bony fingers for peeling
hard boiled eggs . for pleasure^pain
pin pointing.

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Desirée who tests underwear for a living
likes folding heritage layers . steupsing at people
who kneel on no^carpet floors; who peep
the leaf, saving grace^favours.

World devices chill minds + keep fanning
body heat | our island drivers fear updates,
which explains sunset shivers, nightie
fucking No, not now! suck teeth.

– W.W..

[ Colonial Order of Clouds . Georgetown, Guyana . 1965 ]

YUH RAP SO (5.9)

Sequitur: There were so many leaves still green
On the ground of the clearing in which he found
Himself standing + looking around – not stalled
By anything save why he was there at all –
That tired Thomasson was again made aware
Of the absence of soothing Autumns to cure
The eternal-summer fevers in these parts
– As he still thought of this posting, this outpost
Of the dearthing Commonwealth (its bank-accounts
Under new [IMF/World Bank] management,
New Empire-aegis for Friendly Dictators):

The trees he sensed were unaware that murder
Was the principle seeding their own jungle

(from “Raponani” by Brian Chan, 2023)