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Derek Walcott
(23 January 1930 / Castries)
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1      A City's Death By Fire
2      A Far Cry From Africa
3      After The Storm
4      Blues
5      Codicil
6      Coral
7      Dark August
8      Egypt, Tobago
9      Forest Of Europe
10      In The Virgins
11      Koening Of The River
12      Love After Love
13      Midsummer, Tobago
14      Night in the Gardens of Port of Spain
15      Parang
16      Pentecost
17      R.T.S.L. (1917-1977)
18      Sabbaths, W.I.
19      The Glory Trumpeter
20      The Saddhu Of Couva
        
 

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  Dark August

So much rain, so much life like the swollen sky
of this black August. My sister, the sun,
broods in her yellow room and won't come out.

Everything goes to hell; the mountains fume
like a kettle, rivers overrun; still,
she will not rise and turn off the rain.

She is in her room, fondling old things,
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