just five days before arrest,
at the Loft Artist Association’s
Annual Spring Fling, his words
implied US terrorism abroad brought
terrorists to its shores

Stamford’s poet of the people,
vivid native of Antiguan beauty,
bright lord of tension’s colors,
Mandingo, activist poet, six weeks in
a Hartford jail facing deportation

(adapted from Faith’s
Wednesday night poetry blurb,
January 21, 2004)