FIRE AND LIGHT
                               for Enriquillo Rodriguez
                                

More than to dazzle the eye -                                                                    
this color, this Caribbean harmony,
hot with the necessity of sun...
orange, crimson, white, set against
cool foliage, the green made soft...
as though a woman calls,
receives, & he, in his flood
of brilliant noon, responds,
until early evening joins
its radiant aurora with the dark horizon.

                               Peggy Aylsworth Levine

Mangoes and the sun at dusk,
orbs of earth and sky.
Now in our own twilight,
with juice undiminished,
gradations never before seen

Norm Levine