Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison

Author:Lorna Goodison [Goodison, Lorna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7710-3591-3
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2013-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

And I dined on schools of herring and small boiled potatoes

blue-white like opals and bought in a market, a paper bag

of cherries I ate all at one go as I sat on a park bench

to meditate upon Hans Christian Andersen

as played by Danny Kaye.

When I cobblestoned my way back to the bed and breakfast

where I stayed it had turned into a brick box of scandal

as the teenaged daughter of the owner — who was away

on vacation — decided to run off with

her mother’s boyfriend.

He of the sad countenance and the ten-month pregnant paunch

whose hair was sparse; it was all very Ingmar Bergman.

While I was there I thought I’d go visit my teacher

in her castle; because in my atlas, Denmark

and Sweden are twinned

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.