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Derek Walcott

(23 January 1930 / Castries)

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Poems of Derek Walcott

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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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