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Kamau Brathwaite
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, on May 11, 1930....
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Related Poems
Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII
by Walt Whitman
Coda
by Ezra Pound
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Kamau Brathwaite, Elegguas
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from Mesongs

 
by Kamau Brathwaite

XXIV
for Barbara at Devizes


And suddenly you was talking trees
fall black with birds behind the hill
and green as grass fly off
into the sun o blinding girl
the whole cathedral crash at your back


XXV

Not the blue the orthodoxy of the day
But a blue like intuition
The soft of the night into morning
Felt here . remembered
Under the hoofs of the cart










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