Haiti Poem: Bebe's Wish
Poem by Kwame Dawes
Images by Andre Lambertson
Music by Kevin Simmonds
Editing: Robin Bell
BEBE'S WISH
When you leave from here, head down
Canape Vert to your cooling hotel room,
to the breadfruit casserole and barbecue
chicken, to the closed in peace of your
life, say my name to Bon Dieu, say
the name Bebe—he is going to look
for me somewhere in Petion Ville
in the courtyard of L'ecole de la Republica
de Guatemala; behind the low white
wall, where a crowd of blue tarpaulin
huts, a home like
The Canon's revenge
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Haiti Poem: Ganthier by Kwame Dawes
Poem by Kwame Dawes
Images by Andre Lambertson
Music by Kevin Simmonds
Editing by Robin Bell
I thought, he said of the wife
who lasted six months, before
the news of this treachery of the
blood, before he lay on his back,
the bottles of toxic drugs and poison
for rats lined up on his sill,
before the simple equation
of fatigue with this world plus
a body falling to ruin, a heart
shattered by a woman's laughter,
before all of this, she had left,
that wife, that angel, the women
of beauty who kn
Haiti Poem: Precious Are The Feet of Those... by Kwame Dawes
Poem by Kwame Dawes
Images by Andre Lambertson,
Music by Kevin Simmonds
Editing by Robin Bell
I will clap my hands,
bundle my fingers into fists,
lift them and shake them
and laugh, this belly laugh
of pure simple joy
for the precious feet
that have come through
the stone and dust
to my shelter to find me
to echo my prayers,
to rest a warm hand
on my fevered head
and shower me
with the falling leaves
of the scriptures,
to embrace me
to embrace this broken body
to embrace this flesh
to whisper
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Haiti Poem: Job by Kwame Dawes
Poem by Kwame Dawes
Images by Andre Lambertson
Music by Kevin Simmonds
Editing by Robin Bell
For Joel Sainton
This is a home,
this is a shelter,
these walls, shaken,
the lines of jagged
cracks, the split
at the ceiling
that lets in light
and rain—this is
my comfort, here,
deep in the catacombs
of Port-au-Prince,
shaded by a giant
breadfruit tree
with its fragile
branches, its bounty;
here where the yard
is cluttered with trash,
trying leaves, and
broken bricks
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dumpe
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Guided Reading: Making it Active
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