Island Man (for a Caribbean island man in London who

still wakes up to the sound of the sea)

by Grace Nichols.

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Morning

an island man wakes up

to the sound of blue surf

in his head

the steady breaking and wombing

wild seabirds

and fishermen pushing out to sea

the sun surfacing defiantly

from the east

of his small emerald island.

.

He always comes back

groggily groggily

comes back to sands

of a grey metallic soar

to a surge of wheels

to dull North Circular roar

muffling muffling

his crumpled pillow waves

island man heaves himself

another London day.

The Most Important words:

1. wakes up

2. blue surf

3. island man

4. wild seabirds

5. sea

6. emerald island

7. comes back

8.

grey metallic soar

9. north circular roar

10. pillows

The place I would like to wake up in is the Atlantic resort in the Bahamas. I would like to wake up in this place because it has a real ceramic background and also there is a tunnel that goes under water and u can see sharks and other sea creatures above u and i just think that is rally cool.