for Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados
“Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
for Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados
“Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Thou shalt not covet they neighbour’s ox—
You! Even though the ox look good, I mean, real good—
It healthy, it healthy, it healthy!
“...artefacts air-brushed from memory, teasing
holograms in glass globules, daring translation: