Barbados 2023

1

Sun on my belly

sand in my toes

deep deep heat

of solar star

burns these

bones.

Sea creatures dead

a million years:

random footprints

make

pathways many’ve

trod before.

Blue azure crystal

sea, I’m alive

in paradise.

 

2

Paradise never

lies, or does it?

Tea cup horizon

blood beat heat

equator rolling.

There was loving

in the breeze,

now I’m tapping

empty air;

life is how

you live it

or so it seems

to me, &

love is how

you give it.

3

The jungle drips

with monsoon rain

the birds in hiding

& the frogs refrain

cuts the thunder:

we are in this

we are out of it

ten thousand words

will not explain

the beginning

the ending.