Bajan Girl

                Bajan Girl

                                                (For Sallie)

            Hey! Oh, hey pretty Bajan girl.

            Smile pretty pretty and sea-sway

 

You hips for this

Half-white African—far, far from home.

 

Give me one of your maybe smiles—

So that I won’t feel

So all alone

Far, far from home.

When you smile

You remind me of girls

I  have loved so well

Back, back home—

Vera, Saundra

Back, back home.

 

So smile pretty Sharon

Like a rose of May.

And sway pretty, pretty

Bajan girl

Sway like the palm trees

By the sea

Sway like the girls

Of me memory

Sway

Pretty, pretty

For the man

Far, far from home.

© David Cooper 2013

This poem was published in the spring issue of Pegasus.