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Fast Talker
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This dynamic poetry collection combines punchy political and social awareness with tender observations of everyday life. Embracing a wide variety of subjects, these poems constantly shift in tone and rhythm, ranging from hard-hitting "rants" on the South Pacific, the media, big business, war, and capitalism to gentle lyricisms on love, travel, and the landscapes that the author calls home. Part showman patter, part incantation, part prophetic diatribe, these writings display an energetic and witty style that masterfully merges forceful images with inventive language.
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THREE MESSAGE STICKS
VANISHING MAP
Under zero-sum games of festering sun
and daredevil shapes of sub-machine guns,
the shrouded spinning bride is wooed
by swivel-eyed slaphead and gang of goons.
Shoeless fighters slope like panthers after
King George rubbed smooth as a wine waiter,
smooth as mahogany. His plantation dog
stalks curfewed towns, a medallioned god.
In drummed time to coconuts chopped apart,
new market-masters upset old pineapple carts.
They ukelele like ghosts round sly-grog bowls,
urging all peoples to make ready their souls.
Resort dancers tralala in leis of frangipani,
firewalkers of Diwali sway in Hindustani.
Bush orchids send gardens drunk with scent,
but coup-money sweat stains khaki government.
A weedeaterâs busy engine gabbles its pidgin,
wringing out discourses on freedomâs meaning.
Villages let small tongues of flame feed at night,
red hibiscus bleeding into dawnâs grey light.
Hot days crawl past, so brooding and sluggish,
termites riddling the islandsâ map to lattice.
Rusty jaws crush dark rivers of molasses
towards sea whose surf blooms white as narcissus.
NAME OF THE HURRICANE
Waves hit the breakwater,
break like laughter,
lantern glass gets crazed
by cat-oâ-nine-tails,
planks are yanked wise
from household nails,
to capsize caves of jails,
in the twang of wire rails,
the rustle of tree flails,
the whine of windâs veils,
as tossed grit of ashpits,
bits of tobacco butts,
whirl above galvanised
iron prised,
and free tarpaulins torn,
where branches borne
fight weightlessness,
the way a crab grabs mud,
squelched on and dug
deep in that moment
when the ear hears
mouthed faithlessness,
and the eye notes the bay,
eerily calm of foment,
until again the rain,
and bamboo cane brakes
thrashed to stashed mulch,
as any croaks of regret
are stripped to mutter
with husks down gutters
of electrical fret,
and in fronds unwoven
that shrivel cloven,
stung by the sea
hung in the sky â
those swaying beads
flung horizontally,
to fray under
cloud mattresses
of clapped-out thunder,
where tideâs rocks bare
sharp teeth to air,
and sea spray scribbles
wilder shoreâs cover,
spelling the name
of the hurricane over.
A PACIFIC ISLANDER REFLECTS IN CUBA STREET
The face of Che Guevara lives on the torso
of Mike Tyson as a rippling flag of black ink.
Havana is a cigar end glowing red at night.
Cuba has become the taste of rum mixed
with sour sweat, where America pokes
its fat pistol against the skull of Fidel
and spins the barrel â click, click, boom.
Rust defines the tinpot grog-dens of kava,
and those casbahs of Noumean Napoleons.
Papuans bare hearts to flames of loggers;
rare turtle shells stacked like trash vanish;
the sea pours from a beggarâs up thrust hand.
Suvaâs a flaking ceiling of candlenut soot;
dawnâs mouth is burnt peanut ash spat out.
Honululu is a cemetery of suncream-white sand;
plantations grow totem poles for gene...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- ONE SIRENS
- TWO DRUMS
- THREE MESSAGE STICKS
- FOUR TRUMPETS
- FIVE TONES
- SIX PULSE
- OCCASIONAL NOTES
- Copyright