Celebrating a Grenadian Poet a Day (Merle Collins)
Reading Time 1 mins Merle Collins Quality Time for my father They say what he has is malignant but they promise more good years. Now, they say, it’s quality time, so he’s smiling. Words like quality and malignant, you could probe and unwrap them but he’s batting, protecting the wicket. The game’s going on, and he’s out in the field again with cocoa and cashew, guava and gospo mango and mortelle, nutmeg and nettle soursop and Seville orange; he’s spending some quality time. They say, We got it all, but it’s malignant, and he wonders. They say, Go easy,… Read More »Celebrating a Grenadian Poet a Day (Merle Collins)