My grandfather
“…he never bothered/ learning another script,/ dependent still, at 73, on his grandchildren/ to read him ice-cream signs…” Weekend poem, by Akhil Katyal.
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Tributary
“How could you not be captivated/ by her bohemian chic/ and dirty bare feet,/ voice chanting with sounds/ borrowed from our unrecorded past.” Poem of the Week (July 1), by Richard King Perkins II.
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Sempre
“…only/ the blood on the moonlit sand/ black and soaking: the laughter/ of a lion’s ribcage left.” Weekend poem, by Isaac Nowell.
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You, wandering in search of light
“…you wandering in search of light/ Carrying a piece of sky on your broad shoulders,/ Fill my evening of breaths and oblivions/ With voices…” Poem of the Week (June 24), by Alisa Velaj. Translated from Albanian by Ukë Buçpapaj.
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Wimbledon Prayer
“Lead me not into unforced errors./ Let me not be despatched into oblivion/ By a fresh-faced opponent—unseeded, unknown…” Shanta Acharya marks the start of Wimbledon 2014 with a tennis player’s prayer.
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from ‘Far District’
“Evenings, on the way from primary school,/ I saw her, dressed in cowgirl boots and cutoffs,/ blouse opened on a barstool outside The Cool Spot…” By Ishion Hutchinson.
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Ekalavya
“Ekalavya, naïve disciple,/ Your guru preyed on your thumb/ With the eyes of a skillful vulture…” Poem of the Week (June 10), by Manash Bhattacharjee.
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Simple Complex Shapes
“Take her by the hand,/ by the hair,/…lead her/ to the sea/ …the pinhead/ where, if she’s to dance,/ she’ll enjoy horizons.” By Vahni Capildeo, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Outside the Courthouse
“…the colonel/ with his special bloody unit,/ …the preacher preaching of gifts/ waiting on the other side/ of these shadows.” By Kwame Dawes, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Canvas
“…in this tiny tumble-down dwelling,/ small village children stood, not on a bare/ dirt-floor, but tiptoe at the rim of the world.” By Esther Phillips, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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