Savory


 crossings

 for Austin



 passage

and turn

 as the waves
 criss-cross
 weaving thin waters
so do the lines of cultures

 reach us here
 and we reach

here
 in this Caribbean
 in this necklace of races
 knowing
 in our time
 as it is that
 we know
 nothing too much
 to help



 cross
 and migrate

 it is more common
 than we suppose
 this travel
 over centuries
through some spaces
in boxes
which the child built
 to hold an education
through some forgotten tears
in the net of separations

 in Europe
 gypsy
 but perhaps
 here somewhere