Global World

"Try this Madam, King Coconut is good for you.

Taste Madam it's good."

King Coconut is a bright orange thing, you slice its off the top

with a machete kind of knife

and drink its milky sweetish water.

Wrapped up in clear plastic,

its orange or maybe green skin removed,

I discover coconuts to drink displayed here in a shop window,

next to apples and oranges of our western world.

Orchids

Almost real

Beaubourg, blue, red and yellow, framed with medieval stone.

Global World

Six a clock in the morning, the sky is heavy with clowds and the "Kaw Kaw" of the crows breaks through a steady background hum. Where am I?

I remember years ago, far far away, the same croaking chant of those shiny feathered dark birds. The gentle hum of the waves licking the sand. The dark monsoon clowds and the rising wet heat. Only the crows seemed well fed, perched high on piles of rotting coconut husks. I had never seen them so big.

No, no, I am not in that far away place, I am here in Paris, since then the crows have crossed the ocean and the continent, they are here and have made this their home.