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Midsummer, Tobago

Derek Walcott

Broad sun-stoned beaches.

White heat.
A green river.

A bridge,
scorched yellow palms

from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.

Days I have held,
days I have lost,

days that outgrow, like daughters,
my harbouring arms.


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Added: 14 Oct 2002 | Last Read: 5 Jul 2009 2:47 AM | Viewed: 5576 times

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