Bleecker Street, Summer
Derek-walcott
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Bleecker Street, Summer by Derek Walcott
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Derek Walcott distinctly discusses his two homes of New York City and St. Lucia in the Caribbean. In the first two stanzas, there is a motif of music. Walcott mentions the “rare flute” and “press[ing] summer dusks together” like the “street accordions” which carry the melodic feeling throughout. Thi...
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Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,
for the eternal idleness of the imagined return,
for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom
of tangled sheets and the Sunday salt, ah violin!
When I press summer dusks together, it is
a month of street accordions and sprinklers
laying the dust, small shadows running from me.
It is music opening and closing, Italia mia, on Bleecker,
ciao, Antonio, and the water-cries of children
tearing the rose-coloured sky in streams of paper;
it is dusk in the nostrils and the smell of water
down littered streets that lead you to no water,
and gathering islands and lemons in the mind.
There is the Hudson, like the sea aflame.
I would undress you in the summer heat,
and laugh and dry your damp flesh if you came.
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When did Derek-walcott release Bleecker Street, Summer?
Derek-walcott released Bleecker Street, Summer on Wed Jan 01 1986.