The Ad Hoc Ladder
No one knew what he was doing:
discarding his branded T-shirt,
folding the legs of his pants,
measuring the distance, ground to sky.
Jamal G. La Rose (LLB) is a storyteller, singer/songwriter, actor, visual artist, short fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and poet. He has been shortlisted and longlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature (Poetry, 2022) and the BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean (2023). He was awarded third place in the Guyana Prize for Literature (Drama, 2023).