Post Tagged with: "The Caribbean"

Image Credit: Virgie Ezelle Patton, Black 'm-Oceans: Close Quarters, (1985-2012), Oil on Canvas, 48 x 38, Courtesy of Ezelle-Patton Family Collection
Arts & Culture / The Reading Room / Vol. 2 No. 1-2

Dis/Place and other poems

Dis/Place In this place, we swear and sing and hail and honk. This is a noisy little island, loud in color, exuberant in sound. We paint our houses the colors of flamingoes and goldfish, vivid indigoes, mints, saffron and coral. Even the sunsets are washes of hasty undiluted color, quick […]

Legend of a Jade
Arts & Culture / The Reading Room / Vol. 2 No. 1-2

Legend of a Jade

When she first found the bird, she wondered how a dead thing could flaunt such silk feathers. She even started to prod it with her gaze, then her finger— newly lacquered red with a bleeding brush. She asked the air, but how this thing reach here? It just drop so […]