One, and that’s it . . .
Sun-cracked mirror
reaches a shrieking crescendo,
crashed realities
but slither and slide
beside the flambéing
séance too real to believe.
Around the malecón,
someone swore in vain
and dropped dead
upon drowning
in his own filth,
spawned by years of dictators
dying to live
viva la revoluciòn!
. . . would not crash its kind head
on the knees of hardship
if the soul would but permit
one catharsis
set ablaze only
by visions
of sin
on waves
of rolling
drums
that hum
without meaning
except
on the back of tomorrow,
whose waking sighs
bring relief
amid simmering fears
of yesterday’s panic.
Christopher A. Williams is an assistant professor of philosophy, history, English, and sociology and is the acting chair of the Social Sciences Department at the University College of the Cayman Islands. He has published numerous poems and articles in top-tiered journals and has recently published his first book, Defining the Caymanian Identity (2015).