Night In The Gardens Of Port Of Spain Poem by Derek Walcott

Night In The Gardens Of Port Of Spain

Rating: 2.7


Night, the black summer, simplifies her smells
into a village; she assumes the impenetrable

musk of the negro, grows secret as sweat,
her alleys odorous with shucked oyster shells,

coals of gold oranges, braziers of melon.
Commerce and tambourines increase her heat.

Hellfire or the whorehouse: crossing Park Street,
a surf of sailor's faces crest, is gone

with the sea's phosphoresence; the boites-de-nuit
tinkle like fireflies in her thick hair.

Blinded by headlamps, deaf to taxi klaxons,
she lifts her face from the cheap, pitch oil flare

toward white stars, like cities, flashing neon,
burning to be the bitch she must become.

As daylight breaks the coolie turns his tumbril
of hacked, beheaded coconuts towards home.

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toward white stars, like cities, flashing neon, burning to be the she must become. As daylight breaks the coolie turns his tumbril of hacked, beheaded coconuts towards home. a fine poem. tony

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