The Wager by Clive Collins (WORDS OF ADVICE Poetry & Prose Series)

The Wager by Clive Collins Sunday evenings that last year in Freetown, I sat with Liam on the screened veranda of his bungalow on Mount Aureol. Below us, the flickering lights of the city, beyond them the Atlantic. We drank iced Dubonnet, ate stale bread, French cheese, mangoes, star apples, papaya, and talked. Liam smoked, … …