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Authors: Derek Walcott
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 (53 page)
Schooner
Flight
, The
Sea-Change, A
Sea-Chantey, A
Sea Crab
Sea Cranes
Sea Grapes
Sea Is History, The
Season of Phantasmal Peace, The
“Senex, an oak.”
Shabine Encounters the Middle Passage
Shabine Leaves the Republic
“She returns to her role as a seagull. The wind”
Sicilian Suite
Signs
“Silence asphalts the highway, our tires hiss”
Simple Flame, A (
excerpts
)
“Since all of your work was really an effort to appease”
Sisters of Saint Joseph, The
Six Fictions
Sixty Years After
“Smug, behind glass, we watch the passengers”
“Something primal in our spine makes the child swing”
“So much rain, so much life like the swollen sky”
“âSo the world is waiting for Obama,' my barber said;”
“So what shall we do for the dead, to whose conch-bordered”
Spain
Specter of Empire, The
“Splitting from Jack Delaney's, Sheridan Square”
Spoiler's Return, The
Star
Star-Apple Kingdom, The
“Still dreamt of, still missed”
“Stones only, the
disjecta membra
of this Great House”
Swamp, The
T
Tales of the Islands
Tarpon
“Teaching in St. Thomas, I had never sought it out”
“Thalassa! Thalassa! The thud of that echoing blue”
“That little sail in light”
“The adulteress stoned to death”
“The airport coffee tastes less of America.”
“The camps hold their distanceâbrown chestnuts and gray smoke”
“The chapel, as the pivot of this valley”
“The chapel's cowbell”
“The chessmen are as rigid on their chessboard”
“The cruise-boats keep gliding along the brown canal”
“The Cruise Inn, at the city's edge”
“The day, gray. The mood: slate. Too overcast to swim”
“The dialect of the scrub in the dry season”
“The fishermen rowing homeward in the dusk”
“The
gens-gagée
kicks off her wrinkled skin.”
“The hemispheres lie sweating, flesh to flesh”
“The jet bores like a silverfish through volumes of cloudâ”
“The last leaves fell like notes from a piano”
“The marl white road, the Dorée rushing cool”
“The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me”
“Then all the nations of birds lifted together”
“The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines”
“The orange tree, in various light”
“The owl's torches gutter. Chaos clouds the globe.”
“The peanut barrows whistle, and the ladies with perfumes”
“There is a shattered palm”
“There'll be no miracle tonight; by the third drink”
“There's the wide desert, but no one marches”
“There was a roar outside like a rocket arching”
“There were still shards of an ancient pastoral”
“The sea should have settled him, but its noise is no help.”
“The shoulders of a shining nereid”
“The sorrel rump of a mare in the bush”
“The starved eye devours the seascape for the morsel”
“The sublime always begins with the chord âAnd then I saw,'”
“The sun goes slowly blind.”
“The sun's brass clamp electrifies a skull”
“The thought-resembling moonlight at a cloud's edge”
“The time will come”
“The unheard, omnivorous”
“They'll keep on asking, why did you remain?”
“They stroll on Sundays down Dronningens Street”
“Thin water glazed”
“This beach will remain empty”
“This is the first fiction: the biblical plague of dragonflies”
“This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges”
“This Spanish port, piratical in diverseness”
“This was my early war, the bellowing quarrels”
“Those five or six young guys”
Three Musicians, The
“Through a great lion's head clouded by mange”
“Through the wide, gray loft window”
Tiepolo's Hound (
excerpts
)
“Time is the guide that brings all to a crux”
“Today I respect structure, the antithesis of conceit.”
To Nigel
To Norline
To Return to the Trees
Train, The
Tropical Bestiary, A
V
Veranda
“Verandas, where the pages of the sea”
Village Life, A
Villages, The
“Voyaging”
W
Walk, The
“We started from places that saw no gay carracks wrecked”
Whale, His Bulwark, The
“Whatever else we learned”
“What should be true of the remembered life”
“What sort of moon will float up through the almonds”
“What? You're going to be Superman at seventy-seven?”
“When the oil-green water glows but doesn't catch”
“Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?”
“Where you rot under the strict gray industry”
White Egrets
White Egrets (
excerpts
)
White Magic
“Why?”
“Wind-haired, mufflered”
Winter Lamps
“With a change of government the permanent cobalt”
“With the frenzy of an old snake shedding its skin”
“With the stampeding hiss and scurry of green lemmings”
“Woman, wasp-waisted, then wasp-tongued”
Y
“Your two cats squat, heraldic sphinxes, with such”
“You should crawl into rocks away from”
“You used to be able to drive (though I don't) across”
ALSO BY DEREK WALCOTT
POEMS
In a Green Night: Poems 1948â1960
The Castaway and Other Poems
The Gulf and Other Poems
Another Life
Sea Grapes
The Star-Apple Kingdom
The Fortunate Traveller
Midsummer
Collected Poems: 1948â1984
The Arkansas Testament
Omeros
The Bounty
Tiepolo's Hound
The Prodigal
Selected Poems
White Egrets
PLAYS
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!
Remembrance and Pantomime
Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile
The Odyssey
The Haitian Trilogy
Walker and The Ghost Dance
ESSAYS
What the Twilight Says
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First edition, 2014
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The editor would like to thank Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Leanne Haynes, and Caryl Phillips for their assistance.
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First eBook edition: May 2014
