Poem
Dorothea Smartt
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earlythis morning
I remembered the glass fish
in my West-Indian home, typical
in shades of blue green and brown
when I was how old I don’t recall
I took the fish
put pennies in its mouth
did this whole little ritual in ‘african’
did this on my own in the front-room
maybe I was home
sick from school
maybe
I was home-sick.
© 2013, Dorothea Smartt
From: Connecting Medium
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
From: Connecting Medium
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
Dorothea Smartt
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1963)
Dorothea Smartt has been a prominent voice for black women poets since the 1980s, called by her mentor Kamau Braithwaite the ‘Brit-born Bajan International’. If this sounds like a movement, call it a movement towards voice, as Smartt claims for her work what she refers to as her ‘two voices’: her ‘London voice’ of standard English, and her ‘Bajan voice’ – the voice of her childhood and her dre...
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CONNECTING MEDIUM II
earlythis morning
I remembered the glass fish
in my West-Indian home, typical
in shades of blue green and brown
when I was how old I don’t recall
I took the fish
put pennies in its mouth
did this whole little ritual in ‘african’
did this on my own in the front-room
maybe I was home
sick from school
maybe
I was home-sick.
From: Connecting Medium
CONNECTING MEDIUM II
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