Early in de morning she fry him plantain / to eat wit he long bread, guava jelly, an tea. / She bring it to he as he sit tall on de chair / in front de telly. 

It wasn’t a real day, /  but two rather  /  luminous hours I spent in a kitchen / with you, the light coy with us until evening-  /  my blinking, rapidly, /  the way a girl did once in a film / I criticized as not worth the ticket’s price. /