Grenada 1983Author(s): RACHEL MANLEYSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1/2, The 60th Anniversary Edition: Literature andIdeas (March - June, 2008), p. 96Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40655157 .

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Grenada 1983 The flame The flame Eats the soul's wick To a footless fall

By its own light. . . The infinite horizon kills Where it passes vision.

The stories of Maurice Fill the bay, Many hearts Loaned him a kingdom.

Light makes shadows Of form As the candle's womb melts. An old man cries Like an island That cannot swallow its waves, As a dream falls away.

Maurice, Down the candle's blood, Falls to history Where numb ghosts Heaped in wax suicides Lie at Grenada's end.

RACHEL MANLEY

Vol.31, N0S.3&4, Sept-Dec. 1985

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