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A Place Called Home
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Caribbean Quarterly
- Article date:
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March 1, 2008
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my mother is dying
each day a piece of her brain goes away
where does it go?
where will I look for it? in the navy blue sky dark
and tight as my aunt's secretary's skirt!
in the holes the stars leave on the sky spread
under the mango treecool shade
or the yellow folds of ackee drying on the concrete step
between the chip chip chip of the stones she laid on my
grandmother's land to make a drive
to the place
called
home?
the wings of the northbound aeroplane slice the hard cloud
the earplugged muzak's
sneaky messages of styrofoam love oooee over
the pale greyscapes of icy whiteness.
where? Where will 1 look?
in the long silent fall from the height of this plane
to the blank face of the ...