Antigua, at night
The sky the blue hue of spilled ink
Heavy like a blanket
Warm comfort against the mild October chill
And instead of silence
Antiguan and Barbudan writer Joanne C. Hillhouse wrote The Boy from Willow Bend, Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, Fish Outta Water; and Oh Gad! Musical Youth placed second for the Burt Award for YA Caribbean Literature in 2014 and will be published by CaribbeanReads. Her fiction and/or poetry have appeared in Pepperpot: Best New Writing from the Caribbean, In the Black: New African Canadian Literature, and other journals and/or anthologies. She runs the Wadadli Pen writing programme. For more: jhohadli.wordpress.com and wadadlipen.wordpress.com