Famine sighs like a scythe
across the field of statistics and the desert
is a moving mouth. In the hold of this earth
10,000,000 shoreless souls are drifting.
Somalia: 765,000, their skeletons will go under the tidal sand.


The Fortunate Traveller (1981)

Derek Walcott Quotes

Famine sighs like a scythe across the field of statistics and the desert is a moving mouth. In the hold of this earth 10,000,000 shoreless souls are...

Famine sighs like a scythe across the field of statistics and the desert is a moving mouth. In the hold of this earth 10,000,000 shoreless souls are...

Famine sighs like a scythe across the field of statistics and the desert is a moving mouth. In the hold of this earth 10,000,000 shoreless souls are...

Famine sighs like a scythe across the field of statistics and the desert is a moving mouth. In the hold of this earth 10,000,000 shoreless souls are...