Queen
Step aside here comes the Queen Under close escort by her quicksilver bodyguard Black beauty in an immaculate white lace dress Her knight servant under his improvised hat Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Every group of powerful ladies has a Queen a Jester and a Selfie addict They roam the streets on Carnival days talking to strangers No matter what mom did ever say Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2015 Carnival Gallery
Emerging from the waves of a human sea like the lady on the shell A Black Aphrodite, the original Hathor of the Nabta Playa times Just landed on Westbourne Grove with a radiant albeit lethal smile She waves like a Queen at the bemused crowds as she walks away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
Walking around the Hill blowing the vuvuzela The banned African trumpet in fear the white walls crumble But every prohibition brings its new violations, in the name of freedom Invisible walls are built around the people with razor wire and CCTV Fear inside of the fear outside, every home has its own lock-down Mad […]
Riding her man as a Queen on her steed Towering above the multitude of her lowly subjects An instant of unfettered glory for a whole year of servitude My kingdom for a horse and even if he wears heart-shaped pink glasses Let him not teeter and stumble between my legs at the highest moment of […]