This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one`s biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
