#epekwitk

searching for, for years

i finally found it on an island out east

and there it tasted just as i'd imagined it would

rich chocolate, delicious and sweet

where i couldn't smell the difference in the air

but i could feel it on my skin

where i found myself in that rich red dirt

where it fades to soft amber sand

where it fades to an endless horizon of steely blue

and when i found it again here

at home, in the gray world

of tall glass buildings and honking cars

and the gasoline i can smell

it doesn't quite taste the same here, no

synthetic sugar, not quite right

not like it did on that island out east

with the rolling hills and the deep green trees

and the goats and the cows and the potato fields

ah, that's home, that's where i'm from

if not me then my family

and my family's family

l'nuk, on the mi'kma'ki

My friends rememberSo many marvellous thingsI always forgetEach year meeting—the flowersMust again whisper their names AGG20250706 To read it, just click on the link here Nothing Gained by Andrew Grimes Griffin. To download a pdf, right click on the link and select “Save link as…”To read Songs about Sex, Death & Cicadas by Andrew Grimes Griffin, just click on the link. To download a pdf, right…

“Ah! Hah! Again the prick, the stab of gadfly-sting!”from Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus You arrive on the IslandSeeking refugeIn the peace and quiet,But everywhere harboursThose who are out for blood,Too soon you encounterThe seven-bladedBite of the horseflyTwo Blades stretch the skin taut,One scrapes it raw,One slices it open,Two hold the wound apart,One goes in for the finalBlood-filled…

Three eagles take flightSpiral up from Greenwich BeachHigher and higherDisappear into white cloudsLeaving claw marks in red sand AGG20230804 To all the posts that are arising out of my COVID-19 confinement, click here. To read Songs about Sex, Death & Cicadas by Andrew Grimes Griffin, just click on the link. To download a pdf, right click on the link and select “Save link as…”To read  as close as…

On the shores of Epekwitk #Solo_Renga #poetry #AGG #Tankawanka #Cutty #COVID19 #Epekwitk #Gay #Grief #Alain_Bonkela https://tinyurl.com/z85ne5dp

Such is the beauty That you’re no longer part of Waves and sun and wind All these once enticed our skin Together—now mine alone You swam in these waters—once You lay on these white sands—once Your beauty was—once The gentleness of these waves Caressing hot sands No returning—now Wind will seeming endless sculpt Ever-shifting dunes Strangely different waves—now Suffering changes Leave my broken…