Tuesday, August 18, 2015

All Islands Are Haunted Valentine

Greece broke my heart
the way Harlem still does
but worst are the Carib isles
where Paradise was last seen
being plundered and raped
by slavery’s stain never to be erased
everywhere we go
there’s blood on the ground
bodies leavening the earth
children laughing in the cemetery
taking a short-cut back
to the first days
waiting on the shore
for the ship of return

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