EspousalsAuthor(s): Ralph ThompsonSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1/2, <italic>At Home the Green Remains</italic>(March-June 2003), p. 143Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40654373 .

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To keep the secret they are buried in their boots but under the leather the light still glows, even as coarse, wet hair begins to sprout over the ankles and along the shin.

Espousals written in memory of my friend John Figueroa

After the dregs of racial pride there is humanity,

After the ashes of patriotism there is brotherhood,

After the dogmas of religion there is conscience,

After the smoke of ideology there is common sense,

After the echo of poetry there is poetry.

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