Trinidadian Jennifer Rahim's poems have appeared in several Caribbean and international journals and anthologies. Rahim lives in Trinidad & Tobago, where she lectures about literature at the University of the West Indies.
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Haiti
For the earth has spoken,
to you, her magma Creole.
Full-throated syllables, up-
rising from deep down,
an honest elocution —
rudimentary sound: guttural
nouns, forthright, strong,
the rumbled conviction of verbs
unfettered by reticence
as the first poetry of creation.
A secret has passed between you
so wonderfully terrible,
it laid...