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Coldfront

A sudden surge of wind supported the forecast
a cold front pending
descending
from the north in this the year's final month
moist wind traveling
from the tip of the Caucus mountains
raging down on our little island paradise
like slavery
Snapping winds like the curl
of cruel whips lashing our ancestors' backs
oppress us now-Romans to Christ
And then, rain, rain, rain!
Like the rising waters of the Middle Passage
drowning us now in a sudden surge of frigidity
like the greed of imperialism's rage.



ABOUT THE POET ~
Nicholas Damion Alexander is a Jamaican writer living in the USA. His poems, articles, letters, reviews, interviews and stories have been published in online and printed journals, magazines, newspapers, blogs and anthologies worldwide. In 2008, he won a fellowship with Calabash International Writers' Fellowship. In 2015, he served as Red Bones Blues Cafe, Kingston's top live poetry scene, poet of the year. In 2018, he became a fellow of The Watering Hole in South Carolina, where he participated in their inaugural manuscript fellowship. Some of the poems in this, his first official collection, were part of that assemblage.


Last updated April 11, 2025

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