The Morning
a good ordinary morning starting with thunder
crack of sound in the distance though the sun shone
brilliantly gold through the window by my bed
wind also poured in frangipani-tinted from the sea
Born Trinidad 1933. Lived in Guyana since 1955. Edited ‘Kyk-Over-Al’ 1983-2000. Author of ‘The Humming-Bird Tree’ (novel), four collections of poetry: ‘Mercy Ward’, ‘Essequibo’, ‘Jaffo The Calypsonian’, ‘Between Silence And Silence’ and ‘The Tramping Man’ (play). ‘Selected Poems’ published 2008 by Macmillan. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1997 he received the Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of the West Indies.