Red Devon by Menos Hilary

Author:Menos, Hilary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seren

Witches’ Broom

Witches’ Broom Disease ravaged cocoa plantations in South America in the 1980s.

It came on the wind, on the sole of somebody’s shoe,

on the blade of a machete. And before you could say “stout Cortez”

spores were forming alliances under the canopy.

It spread like a secret. Our trees grew ears.

We watched their biochemistry unravel, limb by limb,

the ineluctable shift of gold from host to pathogen.

Now every pod is empty. What can we do?

Fill our gourds with annatto, so our mouths are a red stain?

Burn the fat to the devil? The old Gods don’t listen, don’t hear,

caught between a rock and a prickly pear.

Ours is bitter water, washed down with bitter certainties,

and everything swept away by these new brooms.

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