Water
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Water
Down into the soil,one embraces the hardnessof dirtand consumes pebblesin a rageof grief—stricken with a beggar’s plight,fighting,inciting—for the rightto wash this psyche cleanof history’s triangular wrong…
wrong breedsa richer cadenceof consciousnesswhirled beneathsociety’s treacheroussoil,smiling facesconcealingnurtured glares
Up through the soil it hurls, flinging itself toward sun, rain of sky, misery of woe, throbbing droughtof death and distant life, of elusive and budding green,condemned cocoon to life, suspended in an erstwhile hell. [End Page 151]
Christopher A. Williams is an assistant professor of sociology, philosophy, history, and English at the University College of the Cayman Islands. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Warwick and has published articles in the Journal of Caribbean History, the Journal of Memory Studies, The Historian, and the Journal of Critical Southern Studies.
