38 Approaching Thirty (Lauds and Matins)
39 Passageways
42 Kindling
43 The Glowworm
44 Between Two Stones
45 The Waters of the Bay Lie Beneath
47 Passing
48 Kith and Kin
50 To Sit Arrayed
51 Silver Coins
52 Sentry
53 The Potato Eaters
54 The Assignation (Pons Asinorum)
55 Haunted Child
56 Triangular Trade
57 Casting Rocks
58 Brushstroke
59 Man
60 Landing Schemes
61 Mirage
62 Stone Guide
63 Red Illusions Under Glass

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STILLNESS

Invitingly, the sea shines her stars,
captive flames within an impatient heart
as darkness loads the pleasent isles with coarseness,
slow sparks rise over a roaring fire.

And strolling beaches near dawn
when the sand fleas & crabs are seen to flee,
one catches upon the imperfect stillness
a song of one - wind with sea
drawning near
inward, such stars turn
as bonds at last
worked free.
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HEWANORRA

The moon, at most a shudder or two away.
The sky, bivouaked and cloudy, is within twin sloops of a bay.
The lagoon opens, spars with the greater ocean
by island hopping, green azure blue, as
the wind steps before an open sea.

The great ridge of the mountain
lies obscured by rain;
jasmine, frequent colour
and plantations
with cocoa, soursop, and cinnamon.

Arawaks, Pelee,
Carriacoi, Anegada,
Josephine of the Creoles,
let Admiral Rodney atone Lord Byng.

And my Patois beauty,
breath laced Oleander sweet -
take the hemming from your dress
then come sit down with me.
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THE INTRUDER

The colouring of spacious flowers rove delicious to the eye.
The road above the harbour fickle, carousing in its tendency
to pull too gray by sky enamelled water.
The tropical foliage, still and languorous, to my touch.
Each particle of sunlight dangling as if hoisted from
a perfumed ledge.
Newly mown grass in streaks, browns serpent-like across
the path.
Low erogenous puffs of dust are swathed by passing feet.
Near by, bushes wear the foliage of streaked mud as a mantle
might cottonwool at Christmas.

Life in such climes is built on connotations rather than pure
innuendoes of purpose.
The southern sky, the heat above the sea allude to th