and O was the conch-shell's invocation, mer was
both mother and sea in our Antillean patois, os, a grey bone, and the white surf as it crashes.


Omeros (1990), ch. II, iii

Derek Walcott Quotes

And O was the conch-shell's invocation, mer was both mother and sea in our Antillean patois, os, a grey bone, and the white surf as it crashes.

And O was the conch-shell's invocation, mer was both mother and sea in our Antillean patois, os, a grey bone, and the white surf as it crashes.

And O was the conch-shell's invocation, mer was both mother and sea in our Antillean patois, os, a grey bone, and the white surf as it crashes.

And O was the conch-shell's invocation, mer was both mother and sea in our Antillean patois, os, a grey bone, and the white surf as it crashes.