Lusophone memories lie embedded across the Malabar Coast
where the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean meet the Tagus River
at estuaries, around archipelagoes, at the confluence of the River Periyar.
Here, one walks the Mar Portugues in all its violent ruin
forgotten but not disappeared
enmeshed in the red clay and forbidding stones
of Castello construction at Kannur, Cochin, Kollam, Cranganore
At Fort Aguado, Goa, the Oublie stands a dark reminder
of a sea of accounting
