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Antioch Review, The, Spring, 2002 by Tina Barr
HONEY For Jef Dexter says after Independence they left without teaching the wasps to make honey. We talk about the tree of good and evil, how drink or smoke comes to live inside us, like a duppy. They're hungry so the girls go down beside the cruise ships and give themselves for money. He shows me a walking stick carved with fangs, Marley's face, a pineapple and the word Jamaica. First there was only the hut he constructed from aluminum and bamboo; he sells spin toys made with chestnuts, maracas filled with coffee beans, bowls from calabash, necklaces of brown seeds from flame trees. Now there are fifteen shack shops; their owners had babies, and found a way to eat. Resorts toss the fish heads, the bones from pork roasts. Along the roads, egrets, riding chestnut cows, eat flies off their eyes. There are fruit trees all over, papaya, banana, plantain, ackee that's poison until it splits open. My eyes take in layers of teal, turquoise, navy, a streak of green against a coral reef. The wind blows past my ears, carrying the voice of a child, the racket of stays against a mast. Those mountains hid the Maroons, when the sound of gazelle horns blew freedom. Under the palm-thatch kiosk a man sells liquored juices; yellow-eyed crows sit, small judges in the rafters. Visitors, beer-bellied, sagging, stumble with drink, line a sidewalk to gamble on small racing crabs. Dexter was born in a barn somewhere in this parish. He says god is around, the way the wind blows palms. We can't see wind, only its roving through the fronds, turning the ends, each green spear threaded on the spindle of the wind.
TINA BARR's poems have been recently published in the Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, Notre Dame Review, boundary 2 and elsewhere.
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