Amelia C Biography

He’s overweight
she’s underweight –
they used to compensate
for each other.
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I travel
the circumference of a circle:
its dull, despondent ring
of friction pierces
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I am not ackee and saltfish for breakfast,
or curried goat for lunch.
I prefer chickens alive
than seasoned for supper.
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To you I am luminous red—
my creation
that together we nourished,
in silence
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Together we’d sip coffee
while nights regressed,
while we homed new wrinkles
alongside old ones,
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