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But today I recapture the islands'

South by Kamau Brathwaite - Poetry Atlas Home Poets Poems by Titles Poems by First Line Search for location South Kamau Brathwaite But today I recapture the islands' bright beaches: blue mist from the ocean rolling into the fishermen's houses. By these shores I was born: sound of the sea came in at my window, life heaved and breathed in me then with the strength of that turbulent soil. Since then I have travelled: moved far from the beaches: sojourned in stoniest cities, walking the lands of the north in sharp slanting sleet and the hail, crossed countless saltless savannas and come to this ho

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