Potential Titles: Grace Nichols

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Journeying to the root of her tears - Grace Nichols "At Stockwell Tube"

Raising a carnival of butterflying kites - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

Churning up an army of wild horses - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

The ships that bruised your memory - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

Primed with promises of sweet rewards - Grace Nichols "Battle"

The long haul of the siren's music - Grace Nichols "Battle"

Pushed death back into the cupboard - Grace Nichols "Battle"

Where the blackberries belong to no one - Grace Nichols "Blackberrying Black Woman"

Gathering in avid compulsion - Grace Nichols "Blackberrying Black Woman"

On the branches of my memory - Grace Nichols "Bourda"

The grail of your footsteps - Grace Nichols "A Chant for Mater"

Transform the breathing alchemy of myth - Grace Nichols "Eldorado"

The twin seasons of rioting sun and rain - Grace Nichols "From the Balcony of Eldorado"

In the silent blooming of memory - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"

Hibiscuses ringing me through - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"

Pointing toward some distant Troy - Grace Nichols "Helen of the Gables"

To meet the ghost of my childhood - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"

The silent scales of their music - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"

Umbrellas against the searing glory - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

Breaking the bread of our deepest words - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

Your hybrid heart at home - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

In their green and breathing tolerance - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"

A smile to console the snow - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"

As you scaled duty's rungs - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"

Pitching their absence across the sky - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"

The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"

Under the sun's burning treasury - Grace Nichols "Like an Heiress"

A litany that still haunts the tongue - Grace Nichols "Litany"

My muddy muse in Atlantic gown - Grace Nichols "Litany"

A hammock of memories swinging - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

The flowing symphony of sun and rain - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

Hypnosis of flute and drum - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

The steps of an ancient ritual - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

The hot coins of my mother's silver - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

Descend over the flaking balustrades - Grace Nichols "Nuptial on Brighton Beach"

A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"

A small chandelier fostering a golden air - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

An ambassador of the sun - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

A fiery phoenix conjured by us - Grace Nichols "Ole Higue"

That calabash is pledged to silence - Grace Nichols "Ole Higue"

The crystal memory shared with a river - Grace Nichols "Picture My Father"

Kerosene invades the air - Grace Nichols "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November"

In their arms of gravity - Grace Nichols "Reunion"

Your paintings carry the genes of rivers - Grace Nichols "Rivers"

The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"

Warm me with the flame of his breast - Grace Nichols "Robin Redbreast"

Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

The shining governments of the damned - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

Drinking from an anguished chalice - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

Her mantling spell of silver - Grace Nichols "The Shilling and the Princess"

Just a teaspoon of you - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Whose shadow still haunts the sun - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Whispers fermenting the night air - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

The stored magic in a seed - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

A metaphor for endurance - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

Out of the chrysalis of history - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

The treasured cargo of our inheritance - Grace Nichols "To Mark Your Passing"

Trafficking vision of a phantom ship - Grace Nichols "Viewing the Thames"


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