carib-dreamin’

doctor-bird makes her final rounds,
gleefully and gracefully 
diagnosing blossom for sweetness,

and the last
lingering 
drops 
of the rain shower 
slip
softly 
into a cool tropical breeze.

Papagaio 
screeches
home across the pastel hues
of a dusking sky.

and
Night slides 
ever so gentle
from under the leaves 
of Breadfruit tree.

and here
you are,
with me.