poet: Aimee Cesaire.... One of my favorite poets is Aimee Cesaire. He was provincial middle class black Martinican and studied Western Classics in France. He wrote from 1946-82. He was friends with Leopold Senghor. Cesaire coined the term Negritude and helped to start a movement that was called the "Great Black Cry". His poems are known for their Carribean imagery and sense of in-between culture, or liminalism. Read... this appeal-prohibited blood always, less lively than beautiful, the air, save for this breath exhaled for us by the true earth, a blue tongue and a faithful precation of ancestors i see, descending the mountain steps, in a denouement greatly magnified by butterflies, the queens emerging from their votive prisons in an endless lace they are rightly astonished that the central fire consents to let itself be confined for how much longer in the good conscience of the termitarium castles that it built for itself here and there as for the Sun, a frontier Sun it is seeking the center post around which to rotate so that the future may finally commence these unseizable seasons this eyelash-denied sky and this appeal-prohibited blood hearth... memory honoring the landscape an abatement the hearth nurtures most convincingly the equity of a crater a recollection of very soft skin is not out of the question in the palms of an autumn epacts... with a limp gesture the hill sprinkled dust over the borders of bitter mangrove swamps. Instantly the quicksanding: i could hear it clacking its beak and settling more silently into the scandal of its mandibles. A complicity installed its slime in the renewed bite of leeches and of roots. It is too easy to speak ill of dragons: from time to time one emerges from the muck, shaking its wings sprinkling its surroundings and hardly has it scattered boats and hookers than it retreats to open sea in a dream of monsoons. If unbeknownst to myself i walk choking on childhoods let it be clear to all that calculating the epacts i've always rejected the pact of this lagoonal calendar More later.....