Literary Arts Showcase

The ghost of La Soufriere hovering in the air or drifting down like duppy dust on us.

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A flashing flashing flashing flashing flashing light shatters night’s ebony dome: five hundred strikes per minute. Multiply by sixty, equals total strikes approximately. Did the driver vacate his seat behind heaven’s wheel storm away leaving the strobe light speed on high? First time I’ve seen such a thing in my [...]

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Earth retched and retched: A global heaving, emptying of guts into a barf bowl hastily chucked under chin just before the hurling. Bowl now a-brim with the swishing, sloshing, black-brown green of putridness. Bits of flotsam aswirl in the midst flail, floundering with human limbs — frantic essay at scaling [...]

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A gathering of darkness. Wind shifts, lifts leaves; plastic bags like kites soar high above the ground. An approaching sound: like the thundering of a thousand horses hooves galloping galloping... Unrelenting, raindrops hammer housetops for miles and miles around... A jagged bolt of light shatters the night. A tree comes [...]

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I awoke this morning With thoughts of change As I sought to Rearrange My thinking Of how today’s Insecurities can Cause me to be lost In a mirage of Tomorrow's Perplex, Confusion. I can feel my life's Seasons Changing Without reasons With the earth’s Renewal And refusal of surrender. Refusing [...]

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Six feet apart social distance distancing my heart, this breath not breathing, this cough not sneezing, we're six feet apart locked down, on pause all matters of heart. We've got to restart six feet apart no touching, shaking of hands elbows to bounce keep far from palms we're staying six [...]

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2021- a year of improvement A year of renewal A year of hope At least that’s what I thought it would be Little did I know that it would turn out to be a sequel that was the horror of 2020 It began the afternoon of New Year’s Eve When [...]

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Those were the days of : Sweat-drenched shirts Solace in air-conditioning and soaks in the sea Nights of silent electric skies Spectacular fork and sheet lightning displays Growls of thunder in patchy parish downpours Apologetic sunset beauty Pretty pinky sunrises Daylight hours shifting, darker earlier evenings Beckoning tropical autumn Willing [...]

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First there were not enough Seamstresses kept busy Choices in plain, dulled colours Not anticipating the demand and Will they even be needed In six months time? Slowly getting used to the feel The texture of fabric or paper on skin Fitted carefully over nose and mouth With snug elastic [...]

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