(Barbados )
If I could run away
it would be
to a place like this
a coral sea
where fishermen raise
their nightly nets
where you and I would
wake to the morning sun
dark skin and light
a tangle of limbs.
If I could stop the world
get off where I please
it would be at a place like this
where the sand is perfectly round
and the angel fish feed
on live coral reef
where the yachts anchor nightly
under a Venus sky
and my lover lies sleeping
by my side
If I could come back
as a sand crab burrowing
next to turtles eggs
carrying away my lover’s nest
watching the tidal moon nightly set
or a dolphin following boats
across the bay
blowing the sunlight
riding the waves
watching my dolphin children play.
If I could I surely would.