<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Night in the Gardens of Port of Spain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night, the black summer, simplifies her smells<br>into a village; she assumes the impenetrable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">musk of the negro, grows secret as sweat, <br>her alleys odorous with shucked oyster shells, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">coals of gold oranges, braziers of melon.<br>Commerce and tambourines increase her heat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hellfire or the whorehouse: crossing Park Street, <br>a surf of sailor's faces crest, is gone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with the sea's phosphoresence; the boites-de-nuit<br>tinkle like fireflies in her thick hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blinded by headlamps, deaf to taxi klaxons, <br>she lifts her face from the cheap, pitch oil flare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">toward white stars, like cities, flashing neon, <br>burning to be the bitch she must become.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As daylight breaks the coolie turns his tumbril<br>of hacked, beheaded coconuts towards home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Derek+Walcott">Derek Walcott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368079" data-title="Night in the Gardens of Port of Spain de Derek Walcott" data-description="Night, the black summer, simplifies her smells into a village; she assumes the impenetrable musk of the negro, grows secret as sweat, her alleys odorous with shucked oyster shells, coals of gold oranges, braziers of melon. Commerce and tambour..."></div> </div> </div>

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