Empire

by Steve Dalachinsky

  for Kamau  Brathwaite

the rain has stopped for us
today

the sun comes out at
sunset

the wind brays sweetly
thru the now–pale
onion f lowers
                           open to a new diversity

the sounds of equivalence  &     rhyme

but it is still  and
always will be
true
                                 Columbus     never     stopped     here.