Africa, New England
- Africa, New England
The world is quiet, now. The world is new. Winter has come to pour thought from thought’s bucket, splash it on June’s grass. Winter has emptied out the world, and left each of us each of us, ourselves. How long have I refused my Self, refused to take even His hand? I think my Self to have been walking alone, walking and waiting up ahead for Him. Where has He been waiting? In the forest. He waits where the leaves have flowered: great waves. Each year the leaves roll and rot: great waves—and if a man comes to pick the blossoms of brittle leaves from the forest beds, His eyes are seeing clear through, seeing the forest, itself, made plain to Him
seeing the world: a Calabash!
Selected works by Gabriel Stepto:
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• Africa, New England
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• Canvas
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• Puxetiana
Gabriel Stepto is a poet and translator whose works have appeared in The Kenyon Review and Callaloo. He is co-translator of the Catalina De Erauso narrative, Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Boston: Beacon, 1996).
