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A woman walks home carrying her baby shaded under her veil The distance is not a matter of time it is about your thoughts When you walk your mind runs over the hills, jumps to catch the clouds It paints the landscape in your own colors and brings into it your memories Walking in the […]
Sitting atop their pedestals or high on the rooftops Like the gargoyles of Notre-Dame contemplating the riot Observing the human turmoil down below with a smirk Tolling and trolling the hours backwards from grave to crib Depending on the point of view Everything has a different meaning and shape We crawl and next we fly, […]
Like some alien space pod that landed on the Red Planet The adobe granary lies on the roadside waiting for the grain The laundry is hung out to dry on the fence, it could be the spacesuits Everything is possible in the land of mirages, blinding dust and sandstorms Reality will borrow many shapes to […]
Wrapped in their flags, wearing diadems ,tiaras or feathered crowns Beauty queens step into the streets to join the fray but always remain above the fray This dark beauty temporarily wraps her nudity under a Ghanaian flag The old Gold Coast of the colonies, the door to oblivion where so many left For centuries, slave […]
Like the Greek feminine figures towering over the believers’ heads Caryatids of other times hold the temple and the skies above Surrounded by clouds of feathers, the Olympic creatures look after us The apparition of civilization in Greece following the Egyptian invasion Come what may, the Mitochondrial Mothers remind us of our only origin Hugh […]
In a glimpse from a passing allows to make a kind of ‘à la Prévert’ an inventory The pods are the granaries where the farmers keep their millet harvest safe The lady in charge pounds the millet, the cows and goats keep to the shadow A fence made of intertwined brambles to keep the predators […]
Posing for a picture she may never see A young Jamaican beauty opts for a serious look Moments of high and lows in a frenzy out of control A crowd reveling and moving like a single beast Nothing is human or physical anymore it is the spirit There are no separate bodies but cells of […]
A man wrapped in the Barbadian, maybe one of the 300 000 inhabitants of Barbados Possible descendant of the Os Barbados or Bussa who was forcibly brought to the island from Africa In spite of its small size it became a major sugar cane producer using about 50 000 slaves in the 18th Century Carnival is […]