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HIGH WINDS: The Bahamas

A lulling of the moving morning skies

a sulphurous suspense over the fretting tide

a saffron sky clamped to the water's lead

and to the west a sinking osprey cries.

I walk along alone the beach

to close the shutters of the house

close the boards over the

yellow elders limp and spilling pollen

on the sill

in the living room see rank death

among the pencils

the raped paper curling

shut out the soughing snarls

now spitting on the tarnished teapot

and a napkin blows away

a polite white omen

frail in these latitudes

then quickly to the knocking kitchen

the hall not firmly sealed

muttering wood

close every window

pulling the dank darkness

of the slatted shutters shut

it is hard; it is hard to do -

the stucco house fills with inflating sighs

dimmed and depressed, and roars -

an implosion here of outer

wild and tropic ocean

the bathroom blinds are flapping

the rising winds whistle

riffle the toilet paper

tearing away a taste of fleeing mint and lavender

come to think of it

eerie mirror

a bartering of pressures

a green foaming afar -

when I come to the bedroom

curled leaves rolling

rattan bits like vanilla sticks

and a limping spider on the bed,

a smell of salt tears,

the moaning of an inverse moon.

I leave that door open to the sea

stand among the snapping sails of sheet

to watch everything blow apart -

your picture, my brushes, bureau scarves

the lampshades, then the lamps

see the whipped hibiscus

the yacht club menus flatten

against the wall

take off my bathing suit

to the sand sting and rapping air

and watch my skin

contract to blue

then I lie down

and put my reproach on your pillow

where your head never lay

what the hell!

let the whole damn world

blow away!

a.o.howell

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