AT THE ATLANTIS HOTEL
Once Lamming at Bathsheba looking eastward
and night rising like a great wave widening
across the slate grey water, I watched it
overtake a late, lone seabird.
Edward Baugh, a Jamaican, is Professor Emeritus of English, UWI, Mona. His scholarly publications include: ‘Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision’ (Longman, 1978), ‘Derek Walcott’ (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and ‘Frank Collymore: a Biography’ (Ian Randle, 2009). His two collections of poetry are: ‘A Tale From the Rainforest’ (Sandberry, 1988) and ‘It Was the Singing’ (Sandberry, 2000).