UNIVERSITY STUDYAuthor(s): MERVYN MORRISSource: Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2/3 (June - September 1969), p. 39Published by: University of the West Indies and Caribbean QuarterlyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40653110 .

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UNIVERSITY STUDY

The window opened on a tangled growth of shrub, dry branches twined in frantic strangulation. He moved his wooden desk.

Second reel, New Life; a barbed-wire fence hard jagged cobblestones un worked a solitary tree and brown leaves falling, falling.

He moved the damn desk back. The old sight flicked new pain: that semi-cultured jungle just outride; anarchic self-nrfwting bush called hedge.

He drew the curtains and stayed in. But all the living day the mind's projector played spliced re-runs:

a tree alone self-strangled shrub and brown leaves falling free.

- MERVYN MORRIS

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