looks so pretty
its beautiful staircase
its white and orange window
its brown brick wall
and as I look
a crow descends
on its lovely red-tiled sloping roof
and the coconut trees
sway happily in the breeze
that is blowing
green coconuts hang in bunches
against the blue sky
the sound the leaves make
is the soothing sound
of the sea
and the sea is just behind
us here
on this lovely resort
at Kudle beach
where all night yesterday
a woman in a nearby cottage moaned
making love to her lover
for hours their lovemaking went on
perplexing me beyond wonder
and then there was this animal
or I don’t know what
first the noise was in my cupboard
and I thought it was a rat
then it ran across the walls
and I thought it could be the wind
but whatever it was
it ran across the roof then
and this woman cried.
Dominic Alapat 