New Mini-Anthology in Jackdaw's Nest

Twenty Poems by Poets for Other Poets.

"Charms for a Lover's Bracelet"

Charms for a Lover's Bracelet:  The Seasons

-- clover seeds immersed

          in a bead of dew --

-- noon's still heat embraced

          within crape myrtle blossoms --

--  crescent moon crossed

          by a bursting milkweed pod --

-- flake of flint sweetened

          by cedar smoke --

Charms for a Lover's Bracelet:  The Evanescent

It's the first lesson, loss.

                    -- Jan Zwicky

-- silken wisp of dawnlight --

          -- wind's tug and lift

                     of a strand of hair --

--frost's fractal maps --

          -- a blackberry's bundled curves --

-- urgent heat of your nipple

                    against my thumb --

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Twenty Four-Line Poems and Two More

over in The Jackdaw's Nest.

Caribbean Reading Challenge: Tentative Reading List

for Scavella's Caribbean Reading Challenge for 2009

Subject to modification:

1.  Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John:  A Novel

2.  George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin

3.  Michelle Cliff, Abeng

4.  Jacques Roumain, Masters of the Dew

5.  Edwidge Dandicat, The Dew Breaker

6.  Derek Walcott, Tiepolo's Hound

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A couple of alternatives I'm considering include:

Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven

Maryse Conde, Segu

Return to the Africa Reading Challenge

Back in mid-July I discovered and agreed to join in the Africa Reading Challenge , posted my  tentative reading list , and posted my  first review .  Shortly after that, I became ill and haven't felt up to continuing the challenge until now.  In the next few days, I should have my second review, of Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood, posted here with the remaining four to follow before the end of the year.  At least, that's my intention, now that my health has improved.

And I plan to join in Scavella's Caribbean Reading Challenge 2009 .

(he averred ambitiously.)