excerpts from travelling collage

Amsterdam’s Back Alleys
Nu soul enters
huggers on hips
dashiki on hit
fro blessed by a conscious pick
lips kissed by a chocolate jubilee stick
che rolled spliff
marley laced hash,
sistren coffee house.

Français
He hid behind an accent
full of vitality
hail mary’s at the sacre coeur*
we walked the stairs
taking a breath to write alms,
he iz my paris.

Henna for my Jamaican Soul
Enrapted in a healing embrace
of medicinal herbs
roots reggae choreographed
a dance down my fallopian tubes
like sweet oil on a cotton ball
logic wuzn’t welcomed
to this feast of heartfelt ambrosia
eyes that hung low
looked up
az the dew of love
wuz tree food,
for this
blue mahoe*.

*Sacre Coeur, church in Paris
*Blue Mahoe, official tree of Jamaica

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