formalist and informalist poetry, short stories, excerpts of novels, general rants etc., by Robin Helweg-Larsen, proud to be appearing frequently in Ambit, Candelabrum and Snakeskin. Blog moved to http://robinhl.com
June 12, 2010
GOLDEN CHILDHOOD
Golden girl on a sunset beach With a dog and a horse, Golden boy spears a silver shark Under the sea;
Is such a dream forever in reach Or forever false? We stumble, emotional, through the warm dark Back to the sea.
British by birth, Jamaican by registration, Canadian by naturalisation, Australian by descent.
Formerly Danish, too, but I lost citizenship in becoming Canadian.
But no permanent status in the country I was raised in (the Bahamas), or in the country I've been living in since 1991 (the US).
My flag is the blue-and-white of the UN, all other flags are historically interesting at best, despicable at worst.
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