Mozambina

Welcome to Professor Longhair Island

Leaning on my balcony aboard ship today, I gazed out to sea as the hot Caribbean sun descended, settling gently on the horizon, the colour of a blood orange. And as it spread its dying light and disappeared beneath the waves, I fancy I caught a glimpse, a faint reflection, far, far away, of a solitary sandy shore, an island - a mirage, where there shoul…