05/23/2026
“The precious life-
line readings there
outline no ready fortunes.
Just hard hands, man, spade hard
and licensed with their blisters…”
– Kamau Brathwaite, Folkways (1967)
From cannabis to apple . growers watch for
signals from Antarctic rifts – about what
crumples, drifts away to recompose; + what vibes
steam^churn like in Jakarta iron bowls.
Slow sad punts dumped tales of stalks ‘n’
sticks on sweatwork banks | now importers
press start shifts to key proprieties ! Go
smash mangle taste air flow.
………….
These days is so grief easing < wrong^strong?
fault trace coming for yuh family / cane cutter
blades dig up the past > wipes like for the eye
as wounds get even.
Lesson found ‘n’ lost ~Now not a good time,
Shango! ~ like when with faith shield
down rain bands heat up . poui blazing.
….………
At stars who pause on red carpet for hide^
show leg flash – how is that conceivable?
Veena gasps, her cheeks dimpled for diplomat
mingling; midriff folds noted.
One spot of blood reminds face shavers
there’s a price to pay for brush lips left
tone dry | so Shyanne, coil snake flicky^
licky allupyuh fern ! thru mi never feel it
slide.
- W.W.
YUH RAP SO (7.2)
Boys and babes still tied to Granny’s apron strings –
clock-watching for when the whole shesham should stop –
as it should – my solo cut short – my horn packed –
my escaping one more mouldy jam-session –
infected with bogusosis – dejected
for being too weak to withstand its virus
or too strong or lazy not to dismiss it
like a judge tired near the end of his career
of entertaining so much evidence of
and balancing arguments for and against –
dismissing a case against some petty thieves
but jailing the lawyers for stealing his time
from Limboa, a sentimental anthem
by Brian Chan, 2023)
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