What is coming?
Regarding the sweet potatoes on the wall; consider the texture
of their knobbly skin and knowing eyes against the pitted stone;
when a rough boy bounces out, bat ears, brown eyes,
curled teeth, doused in dirt. Shrill screaming sprays gulls
against clouds, and a stallion gallops, frustrated,
past plantation machinery. Black nose sniffs for more sound.
One scarlet bird skitters up and away. I run to swing in the banyan tree.
Jude Cowan Montague is a writer, artist and composer who lives in London. She works as an archivist for Reuters Television. Her first collection of poetry, For the Messengers was published by Donut Press in 2011. Her second, The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge will be published by Dark Windows Press in 2012. She makes musical improvisations on Reuters stories and these are available on the Parisian based netlabel Three Legs Duck. Links:www.judecowan.net http://www.judecowan.tumblr.com