Nationalité : Bahamas
Né(e) à : Nassau , le 31/07/1953
Biographie :
Marion Bethel est née aux Bahamas où elle vit et travaille actuellement. Elle écrit des poèmes, des romans et des essais. Ses œuvres sont inclues dans de nombreuses anthologies.
My father borrowed
Pounds sterling
To buy me
A new tongue
At the age of ten
In Canada
One that could speak
In the same breath
The language of Descartes
And Strauss
With the accent
Sugard-milled and refined
Of a lady
Lips soft and pursed
We are both Tutsi
And Hutu
We know
The blood nature
Of blood
As Serb and Kosovan
Dinka and Arab
We know the price
Of a pound of flesh
The weight
Of a woman's body
Our blood has no bank
Behind a layer
Of porous skin
I've left home a hundred times
Forwards backwards ans sideways
For different reasons
In awkward seasons
Once in search of infinity
And a sea-map home
In the time of pomegranates
I like the style
Of these hybride hibiscus
Not lying bout a thing
Daring nothing
And no one
Just posing pretty pretty
Every single morning
As I walk by