Gardens

I have been browsing through the coffee table book Paradise Gardens: the world's most beautiful Islamic gardens by Monty Don and Derry Moore. Lovely gardens, and my favorite photo is one of the Palais Lamrani Riad in Marrakech. In my next life, I will make it Morocco and and see this.

The one below is a line of date palms in the Lodi Gardens in Delhi. I thought it looked delightfully atmospheric.

Poet's Corner: Jamaica Market by Agnes Maxwell-Hall

From African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, ed. Kevin Young.

Jamaica Market by Agnes Maxwell-Hall [1894-?]

Honey, pepper, leaf-green limes,
Pagan fruit whose names are rhymes,
Mangoes, breadfruit, ginger-roots,
Granadillas, bamboo-shoots,
Cho-cho, ackees, tangerines,
Lemons, purple Congo-beans,
Sugar, akras, kola-nuts,
Citrons, hairy coconuts,
Fish, tobacco, native hats,
Gold bananas, woven mats,
Plantains, wild-thyme, pallid leeks,
Pigeons with their scarlet beaks,
Oranges and saffron yams,
Baskets, ruby guava jams,
Turtles, goat-skins, cinnamon,
Allspice, conch-shells, golden rum.
Black skins, babel – and the sun
That burns all colours into one.