When they knew what he had given them,
This florid colossus with the sunrise in his eyes
And skin the color of perfectly ripened fruit,

Eventually she stayed
with the overflown artery of Ouse
fingering pebbles one at a time two

      Those silly seagulls up in the sky over there remind me of

      A particular local postcard of many seagulls in the sky thatcould go on and on forever were it not for the edges

for angeliQue brathwaite

this living liqurid mmemory
deep tidal embankment under the water
breathes through the sea’s leaves like lamplight

dreams itself a green island lizard
long before you was born
branches of blue into tunes of blue crystal
softness of turQuoise and terrace and moon

Gee, You’re so Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain

Oh, Marcia,
I Want your long blonde beauty

I want to love a blue-eyed man
and have blue-eyed babies,
sleek and smooth as cats.

you are white everywhere
on your rubbery boy’s body
baby fat intact.

You see a bright ship
with a flourish of little banners
formed in one single gesture

The river's applause fades 'round the ridge
like a candled freedom snuffed by a junta:

wounded echo. Crumbly shale of ocean