You’re Leaving

You have no choiceYou’re scaredconfusedYet….There’s excitementanticipation You Arrive…..It’s coldOverwhelmingIt’s new…you exploreyou experienceyou acclimate 10 Years later you return…the airthe starsthe smell..things you took for grantedthe peopletheir honestytheir beautytheir language………..is you Reluctantly you leaveBUT with the realization that youwill one day return For good.

The Young Girl’s Plight

The young girl walks pass the manschool books tightly held in her hand.Head down, shoulders hunchedhunger pains gnawing in her stomachfrom missing lunch. The man fell into stepslipping hand around her shoulderhand slipped down to her breastpulling her closer to stop the shudder. Please sir, stop. I am too weakto fightPlease sir, any other daybut […]

Patois bodderashun

wah mek dem haffi chobble wi likkle twang?mek dem nuh tek dem propa inglish an galang?nuh everybady mek fi chat inglish lakka di queennuh everybady mek fi play golf pon put-put green wah mek di whola wi haffi roun up wi moutlakka seh wi deh nyaam whola trout?lawd! mi cyaan tek dem deh sorta bodderashun!jus […]

Like I don’t know….

won’t i ever learn that he is not my salvation?won’t i forget the pain he caused me?i mean, really! how insignificant it all isin the entire scheme of thingsso what if we were together and i loved himand he left me for another woman?it isn’t you, he reassured me. it’s me.Yeah right! Like i don’t […]

Kingston Streets

Green trees reaching,Loose boards screeching,Sky stretched mansions,Gloomy dungeons,Fancy gardens,Ghetto soil hardens. Even where the roads are paved and neat,Cows and goats they walk the street.Hand cart, donkey cart,Push cart, car mart.Boy with scooter set on bearings,Perverts and their dirty leerings.Makeshift walls of zinc,The sanitary and the stink,Clogged up catchments,Security detachments. Church, bar,School, bar,Bank, bar,Hot tar,Need […]

Sun love, Sun love

A flower when in love with sunstretches her petalto arch her wingand kiss the windto high and sighas a butterfly

Mahogany March

BrownMaHaGonyBrowngirlsgrace hot concretewith their presencetheir leather sandalsprovide a glorious viewfrom ankle to neckgreased with coconut oildabbed with sweatsimmered by suntheir feet brush the streetwhile their short cotton dresseswave from side to side In there walk their is musicthe rattle-tattlepling plapling plingof the steel drumas their brown eyesglance,blink slowlyto the away side,sizing up theirripple in thegiant […]

Green Grassy Gates

Tucked in the navel of the hillshidden from the incidental visitorexcept for the doctor birdthere rests a building of truththe gateway of Paradisethe passageway to the Kingdom. The gravely road leads right tothe entrance, and the lifted sounds ofHappy are the Mercifuldrifts in the fresh country airlike freshly cut grassthat floats out of the barnof […]

Mahogany Women

Mahogany womenliving statuesshaped with claybreathe crisp clear voicesoiled with aloesoft as fernaccented with reggae root Brown Brown bright eyessoak in every sort of thing Skin,finishedsmooth as butter Loose the threadand gaspas the hand of Godmockseverywoodenforgeryeverforged

Wild Cherry

She reminds me ofMother’s cherry ice cream –rich, ripe, and sweetflowing out of a skimpy conedesigned to hold one in placeyet like fluidflows out of course –sweet as sweet can be. She lingerslike a cherry stained tongueon a guilty child before supper Ahhhhhhhhhhsee my tongue is pinkbut mom knows it’s redUnder hot sunsweetnesskisses the mouththe […]