Pam Mordecai reading...

Author Pam Mordecai Reads at the Diaspora Vibe Gallery

MIAMI - Pam Mordecai, a pioneer in the movement to expose the writing of Caribbean women, will be reading at Diaspora Vibe Gallery, 3938 North Miami Ave, Miami, on March 23, 2006 at 6:30pm.

Dr. Mordecai will read poems and short stories, including work from her most recent collection, The True Blue of Islands.
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Hope

Through a blue window
I am letting it go, light
having washed its feathers.
The sky is a flat sheet
of water reflecting itself,
and when I face
its immeasurable underside,
there's nothing behind it.
Only a darkening space
for me to curl under. Snug
in the spell of a cradle
rocking, I remember
the first time I floated
on my back as a child,
the unflappable calm,
as if I were slipping into
the future where the light
was waiting to come back,
and where I would find
my lost breath again
after I drowned.
© Shirley Kaufman

Shirley Kaufman
"Ezekiel's Wheels": Copper Canyon Press