Friday, June 13, 2008

lala in guyana

descendants of slaves and laborers
work on the plantations:
pockets of the ruling few
wheel anxiously about in
aluminum plants.

rocks that promise to
crash over precipices
bear the brilliant costumes
of creatures
of the north.

leave-taking is
a colony for convicts,
a drowsy empire deep in the heart.

2004

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