San Pedro, Ambergris Cay, Before Sunrise

San Pedro, Ambergris Cay, Before Sunrise

San Pedro, Ambergris Cay Before Sunrise

Rain comes quietly
as if touching the white sand
one bead at a time
Coconut trees hardly stir

Trying to light an insect repellent
Air so damp
matches fizzle one after another
till the last one dies
Mosquitoes are strangely absent

A rooster crows
taking me back to the thick jungle on the mainland
where a heavy barefooted woman
allowed me into her shack
I took pictures of a steaming pot
balanced on a ring of rocks
over burning branches
A naked boy stood watching
with a white duck
a scrawny brown dog
and a chicken

Air smells thick and swampy
Tiny waves hiss at the squat concrete seawall
Distant hum of fishing boat motors drift in

On the Hibiscus shrub next to me
blooms that will open later today
and blooms that were open yesterday
look curiously alike
Some about to fall
Others await their first light

© Assef Al-Jundi

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