Mermaids and Ikons by Gwendolyn MacEwen

Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2017-08-25T14:33:17+00:00

The Island

A DIARY

The island is shy and exuberant, savage and fair, bold yet self-effacing. It is a woman in heat, a man in despair, a blonde horse at sunset, a riot of fig trees, a flaking white salt bed, an arid garden of thyme and oregano, a hundred clotheslines full of octopi hung up to dry, a warm night of fireflies and tiny shrimps with burning eyes.

You know you are almost there when you can see the two huge rocks they call ‘the doors’ rising from the sea ahead of you. The ship stops at a large island; from there, a motorboat takes you across the transparent green water to a smaller sister island. At the dock, the fishermen are spreading out their saffron yellow nets to dry, and women carrying large loaves of bread and plastic bags full of tomatoes and eggplants are laughing at some impossibly funny joke. Bare-footed boys with nutbrown bodies run along the beach chasing something only they can see, and in the café, the old men sip their afternoon coffee, play tavali, or simply smoke their pipes and watch the sea.

Suddenly you know that you have been here forever.

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