Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix, IN BELIZE, No.8: The Window is Open.

 

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix, in BELIZE, No. 8: The Window is Open.

dedicato: Carol M. Aniello.

The window is open

and the air bares within

sounds from far away,

a Caribbean Opera Score

of lost ventures

of Pirates, Devils, Jesuit Priests,

Cut-throats, Gentlemen-Adventurers,

their promise, the hope, imcumbant desire/

the dreams of evermore

now entombed

under mangrove

sand and quartz

whose voices, in tidal wailing, swirling

CRY OUT!

"Do not GO where I have ventured So!"

to remind a bathing debutante:

the kiss of these Seas

are blind to your perfect Vision

in the cool of a tropic eve's 

shoreline breeze

that envelope's your moment's rapture.

c.2021, dave delacroix, bayshore drive, corozal, belize.