{"id":8539,"date":"2012-05-25T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2012-05-24T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:23:50","slug":"poems-by-fred-daguiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Fred D\u2019Aguiar"},"content":{"rendered":"

click pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103<\/a><\/p>\n

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Golden Shovel Borrowed From Derek Walcott and Gwendolyn Brooks <\/strong><\/p>\n

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In that ragbag Calypso down in Trinidad<\/p>\n

The braggadocio of the frontloaded word, bad,<\/p>\n

For how good steel drums shaped for pan sound<\/p>\n

With a Spock-like ear to the wok-burnt ground.<\/p>\n

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A manual, as yet unwritten, begs all who celebrate<\/p>\n

To step, dip and throw hips from side to side,<\/p>\n

Arms stretched for balance as if testifying, and breathe,<\/p>\n

Oh sweaty body caught in rapture with nothing to hide.<\/p>\n

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But who will feed the hungry as they choke down weed<\/p>\n

To suppress a hunger that cannot be assuaged?<\/p>\n

I ask as I lift a gilded flask, throw back my head,<\/p>\n

Swallow over-proof rum to add backbone to this page.<\/p>\n

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In the field beside the residence of the President<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a serious football match (soccer to you),<\/p>\n

The boys in red take on the boys in blue in a recent<\/p>\n

Signed peace. I send this from my I-pad, in a stew,<\/p>\n

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In a funk, for this is not the usual me; not the me,<\/p>\n

Of me and you; but of anger, over hunger; of enemy,<\/p>\n

Over enema; of no socks left to pull up, hangover;<\/p>\n

In a blame game of Wikipedia fame; jilted lover.<\/p>\n

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Tobago<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One way up this cliff face, our feet steering us straight ahead,<\/p>\n

Backs rigid, as if eyes looked out from behind our heads.<\/p>\n

And one way down after a six-point turn, so high over water,<\/p>\n

Its blue resembled sky under us, anchored by white yachts.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I got no lobster and no more crabs, buy me two beer.\u2019<\/p>\n

The price for nothing must be worth this something.<\/p>\n

If only the two of us enjoyed it together for longer<\/p>\n

Than it takes these burst clouds to sweep through.<\/p>\n

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A green coconut to slake our thirst and a spoon cut<\/p>\n

From husk to scrape out the jelly later, and we\u2019re back,<\/p>\n

Facedown, in shallow water, looking for treasure<\/p>\n

In a hidden cove, favored by pirates and now us.<\/p>\n

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On a clear day you see Trinidad, or cloud impersonating<\/p>\n

Islands separated by sky and joined by water, or the reverse,<\/p>\n

Or both, if both can be true, as I am to you and we are<\/p>\n

To ourselves; us, twinned, as these two emerald isles.<\/p>\n

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Vulture in El Dorado<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Of the mind<\/p>\n

Of unruffled feathers<\/p>\n

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Of bird above bushy cloud in space flight<\/p>\n

Of breeze flying me<\/p>\n

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Of my shadow racing under beside ahead behind and yes on top me<\/p>\n

Of my beak fast asleep on a pillow filled with meat<\/p>\n

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Of nightmare vegetables dive-bombing me<\/p>\n

Of the guy in Guyana and his Ana and me<\/p>\n

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Of the venison in Venezuela<\/p>\n

Of the pepper in Cayenne<\/p>\n

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Of the felled feathers of trees floating down the Demerara and Essequibo<\/p>\n

Of my hollow bones all ready to be a flute<\/p>\n

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Of my beak for the end of a spear<\/p>\n

Of my claws stringed for a warrior-necklace<\/p>\n

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Of the gold pieces in my stomach that help breakdown my food<\/p>\n

Of my high up lookout look down on this live theater-in-the-round<\/p>\n

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Of my wishes granted everyday to sniff out the dead uprights<\/p>\n

Of my rocket-climb in my sleep up up up to greet my stop-time<\/p>\n

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click pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103   Golden Shovel Borrowed From Derek Walcott and Gwendolyn Brooks   In that ragbag Calypso down in Trinidad The braggadocio of the frontloaded word, bad, For how good steel drums shaped for pan sound With a Spock-like ear to the wok-burnt ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,77],"tags":[1157,1123,885],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-34","category-english","tag-egophobia-34","tag-english","tag-fred-daguiar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-2dJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8541,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}