DREAM TIME
The lady dreams herself shut out
her lord in the castle
his lady without.
He waves from a window
a long way away
she doesn’t know what
he intends to convey.
Mervyn Morris is the author of eight poetry collections, including Peelin Orange (2017) and Last Reel (2024); and three books of criticism and biography, ‘Is English We Speaking’ and Other Essays (1999), Making West Indian Literature (2005) and Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture (2014). He retired from The University of the West Indies in 2002 as Professor of Creative Writing and West Indian Literature. He received the Jamaican Order of Merit in 2009 and a Gold Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 2018. He was the 2014–2017 Poet Laureate of Jamaica.