Under the hot sapphire sky      at the cool hem of the Atlantic      in 1616 the Portuguese arrived, in the name of their crown,           wearing leather and metal,      swords and helmets, and founded Belém. They arrived                and kept on arriving... Margaret Mee travelled here when I was four,      her small feet firmly planted           in the footprints of Richard Spruce and Adolpho Ducke. Now I stand overlooking the glinting water,      slick and moon-shot,      same night wind at my back, same moon