Ask Me Again In Ten Years

12/03/2025

“Perhaps every man knows he is being
dreamt into existence by others….”

– Wilson Harris, Companions of the Day
And Night (1975)

Crowd builders press play skittery scales
on ­­­our island not known for standard high
beams | pet owners bark at projects scowling
at the gate. Stray logs do not fit right here!

Every now‘n’again you notice heart bruise
frozen on long faces | all the wretched
stacking up the earth you’d think by now
we’d learn to slide nesting irons gently in.

…………..

Showing up off shore Orinoquos disturb
our coin bite balance . pirate^like mean
mixing business with low fat custard apples.

Diaper changers @Home affairs report
plantation^trace in our joint stool | the ocean
bed surfs up tokens > pocket knives dislikes
like from some sunken^ship century.

………………

Course narrow ? Should I stay . the marathon
swimmer heaves, right^left neck in swivel.
Running out of strokes his lungs go Ho ho
ho for a horse with wings!

Call the number on your screen . hold
please, thanks for submitting | launch
time? bulbous^bow strapped on purpose
stern apps boiling up you cannot fuck this.

  • W.W.



[ Colonial Hat Band . Georgetown, Guyana ]

YUH RAP SO (6.1)

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 better 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

   (from Raponani, by Brian Chan 2023)

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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.

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