These islands are not perfectly, foreverably
reboundable.
Verse: Ark Ramsay [Un Santo a la Vex (A Prayer in Motion), 2025]
It is not a taste of paradise.
Works by Christopher Cozier
Verse: Cruz Garcia, Jelisa Blumberg, Pedro Cruz Cruz, Venesa Alicea-Chuqui [(Dark) Notes on the Caribbean]
the closed plantation produced the open word creolization.
Artwork by Annalee Davis
Verse: Édouard Glissant “Closed Place, Open Word”