“Love After Love
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.”

—  Derek Walcott

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Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930–2017

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