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‘There are days like this when I remember I am living in a glass box marked ‘Earth Creature in his own habitat‘ except the visitors have long gotten bored at the sight of the bald ape who sits all day’ from The Song of the Human, Don Paterson
rafhuggins:
‘so that only what has been extracted from its context becomes real’ from Tremor, Teju Cole (Tremor out 19 Oct) streets of Soho, London. DO01030265
rafhuggins:
‘A sun-coloured ball floats past the ukulele man, past hula-hoop girls, twirling sunlight.’ from Autobiography of Snow, Ishion Hutchinson. east london today. DO01030492
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Notting Hill Carnival ‘But he get a letter from a friend in Trinidad who say that this fella coming by the SS Hildebrand, and if he could please meet him at the station in London, and help him until he get settled.’ from The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon.
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival,‘But he get a letter from a friend in Trinidad who say that this fella coming by the SS Hildebrand, and if he could please meet him at the station in London, and help him until he get settled.’ from The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon.
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival, ‘But he get a letter from a friend in Trinidad who say that this fella coming by the SS Hildebrand, and if he could please meet him at the station in London, and help him until he get settled.’ from The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon.
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival, ‘But he get a letter from a friend in Trinidad who say that this fella coming by the SS Hildebrand, and if he could please meet him at the station in London, and help him until he get settled.’ from The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival Sunday, London, today. ’Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.’ from The Lonely Londoners (pg.27), Sam Selvon. DO01030372
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival Sunday, London, today. ’Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.’ from The Lonely Londoners (pg.27), Sam Selvon. DO01030384
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival Sunday, London, today. ’Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.’ from The Lonely Londoners (pg.27), Sam Selvon. DO01030397
rafhuggins:
Notting Hill Carnival Sunday, London, today. ’Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.’ from The Lonely Londoners (pg.27), Sam Selvon. DO01030404
rafhuggins:
`Yet others, who now watch my progress outward To a sea which is crueler than any word Of love, may see in me the calm my voyage makes,` from The Fisherman Rowing Homeward…,Derek Walcott. streets of East London. DO01000469
rafhuggins:
‘The bird to nest in the tree. The bat to a feast in its branches. Stranger to each other they seek... the same tree that grows out of the great soil.‘ from In A Small City At Dusk, Martin Carter (Guyana). streets of East London, last week. DO01030334
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“It is worst during the night when the bombardment is most intense” from XXX, thirsty, Dionne Brand. streets of East London DO01030316
rafhuggins:
‘The tree seems to express its wish in the tossing of its head: its fronds heave and swish - It thinks, Maybe my leaves are feathers, and nothing stops me now from rising on their flutter.’ Rabindranath Tagore
rafhuggins:
‘I come wearing my one serge suit built for me by my uncle the tailor. My best white shirt and merino washed by my mother in the river’ from Windrush Sankey, Lorna Goodison DO01030307
rafhuggins:
‘Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf! Just like a fragile bell of silver rime,‘ from The Easter Flower, Claude McKay (Jamaica, 1889-1948). yesterday, soho, london, pride 2023. DO01030208
rafhuggins:
‘I shall return to loiter by the streams That bathe the brown blades of the bending grasses, And realize once more my thousand dreams Of waters rushing down the mountain passes.’ from I Shall Return, Claude McKay (1889- 1948), Jamaica. streets of Hackney
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‘and fortunately I forgot to be afraid and kept my fear’ from Sprawl, Ishion Hutcherson (House of Lords and Commons) Brixton Station Road SW9 8PQ, Brixton, yesterday. 27B7FC35-129D-4AC8-89E4-8C73F2E97E13
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‘Maybe loving is like ironing a shirt. Only through heat and pressure does it yield its shape,’ from Monday, Andre Bagoo. streets of Central London. 9A4D1117-51CA-47DC-A9C1-8DBA0A9EE9C1
rafhuggins:
‘The orange tree, in various light, Proclaims perfected fables now’ from In a Green Night, Derek Walcott. East London C6408981-5FC8-48DD-A299-F6B144897D5F
rafhuggins:
‘And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened.‘ from The Waste Land, 1. The Burial of the Dead, T.S. Eliot at the foyer Tate Modern, London. 3DFCAEE7-7ED6-4BDA-A1D6-4DE333ED4970
rafhuggins:
‘Dream of fourteen red macaws huddled on a wire, of which three are green and two are black and all are men in feather costumes, none smiling’ from Fourteen Macaws, Nicholas Laughlin. Tragarete Road, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad FE212C13-30E0-4932-
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‘These fruits glowed like precious edible jewels, these sweets did not originate in anonymous factories, each sweet had its own shape and form,’ from Outside the Gates, Lorna Goodison. Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago. 7834976C-0431-4C49-A9B9-55785982B3ED
rafhuggins:
‘… the only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.’ from In A Free State, Cp.5 (1971), V.S. Naipaul. Chaguarmas, North Trinidad. 6453257D-A7B6-490A-A729-9B739A998DF6
rafhuggins:
‘I followed her pale head’s patient motion towards remnants of what she saw— quiet now,’ from The Small Dark Interior, Ishion Hutchinson. 43 Calcutta St., St.James, Port of Spain, Trinidad. A0DA87F9-6984-489B-8CDA-ABB08737B913
rafhuggins:
‘Lady into swan, come down; swan into sea, set down; fire from the sea, set out; reach; launch.’ from Björk/ Birch Tree, Vahni Capildeo. Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad. EA0CEC80-CA83-4AB4-9F3B-F3488EEEEE0B
rafhuggins:
‘I go down to the same sea by another road’ from White Egrets, Ch 5, III. Derek Walcott. Mother with congregation, Spiritual Shouter Baptist, Chaguaramas, Trinidad. B4D03A2B-7EF6-4F5E-98A0-04C61AF2DC2C
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‘take the form which best fits. Over time, the cloth‘s colours might hold; or the fabrics fades and fray,’ from Monday, Pitch Lake, Andre Bagoo. Western Main Road, Port of Spain, Trinidad. F211584C-E511-4E05-A53D-E092500703DB
