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    Dorothea Smartt

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    early
    this 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
    Dorothea Smartt

    Dorothea Smartt

    (Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1963)

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    CONNECTING MEDIUM II

    early
    this 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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