Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called "Red". It's about being in between.As Philp writes:
And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word "red," which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or "half-caste."
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I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and am posting (irregularly) the poems I'm writing daily.
But I wanted to note that Geoffrey Philp has been doing a daily update on Caribbean poets all month long. You can find it here. Today's is particularly good: Anthony McNeill (Jamaica):Somebody is hanging:a logwood treeladen with blossomsin a deep wood.The body stirs leftin the wind ...