Island Man (for a Caribbean island man in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea)
by Grace Nichols
.
Morning
an island man wakes up
to the sound of blue surf
in his head
the steady breaking and wombing
wild seabirds
and fishermen pushing out to sea
the sun surfacing defiantly
from the east
of his small emerald island
.
He always comes back
groggily groggily
comes back to sands
of a grey metallic soar
to a surge of wheels
to dull North Circular roar
muffling muffling
his crumpled pillow waves
island man heaves himself
another London day
I think the 10 most important words are
1.Island man
2.blue surf
3.wild seabirds
4.sun surfacing
5.emerald island
6.come back
7.grey metallic
8.dull
9.north circular
10.pillow waves
I would really like to wake up one day and be like "oh wow how did I get here" But where I want to wake up it would be Spain. It looks so cool there and Jamaica.
