you are reading this
and the poem is already
halfway down my throat
possessed by the damp
and the cries in me
my rooms are empty
everyone is out
netting yellow stars
there is no one left
to hear me drown
in the blue
and the wings
you are reading this
and the poem is already
sucking a soft skin
off my heart
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Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné has lived all her life in Sangre Grande, Trinidad. She has been writing for as long as she can remember. Previous publications include Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, Heart to Verse: Wordlines from UWI, as well as the online publications WomenWriters.net, Pemmican Press, and tongues of the ocean.
tongues of the ocean 
Carlyon Blackman
I’ve already got this memorised. Who are you; who is this woman speaking to me in a language I can understand?
Soyini
Lovely, lovely poem Danielle!