Ascent
I dreamed us in a Baroque city
strolling a maze of empty streets.
Worn satin-smooth, the stones
gleamed in emerging moonlight.
Sarah Venable, writer, visual artist, actor, and educator, calls herself a “dot-connector”. She has over the years contributed feature articles to Ins & Outs of Barbados, SkyWritings, Signature Barbados, Select Barbados, and Maco. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in POUi, Anansesem, Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, and in the anthology The Truth About Oranges. Sarah, whose work will also appear in the forthcoming issue of The Caribbean Writer, has received NIFCA Bronze and Gold awards, and her poetry collection The Tropic of Sweet and Sour won an Honourable Mention in the 2019 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment competition. She has taught creative writing in the National Cultural Foundation’s WISE programme, the Writers’ Clinic and at Barbados Community College.