11/12/2025
Your Bartleby who should prefer not to climb
any more stairs – having seen and tried and failed
to climb any – all of us more air than stone –
as trees which monkeys climb are more air than earth^
and when those monkeys climb they climb only half-
way up a tree – knowing its highest limbs can’t
bear their weight the way they bear all of Heaven’s^
and to tell of Heaven – it is not concerned
with anything but your presence at its door –
your reaching there is proof of its presence and
of your choices and chances all the one made
and taken for granted by all simians^
(from “Limboa”, a sentimental anthem
by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 