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You might doubt their existence our brown hares are rarely seen. Yet I’ve heard their bewitching half-human early morning scream. One…
after Janneth Mornan-Green what school was selling she refused to learn by rote during history classes she sailed the Atlantic Ocean with…
He would throw her across the room. Some men make sport of such things. I was warned to see and blind. Still, I watched through the window…
Anthology preview In the darkness after words, after the tempest of tantrums, the wind-whipped tears, accusation and recrimination sluicing…
Anthology preview Long shadows ripple across the morning tracks walkers, runners and joggers men, women and children together and alone…
Anthology preview; winner of the 2014 Carolle Bourne Prize for Innovation Full, round belly in eighty-six Divined as girl by Reading linea…
i first met you when i was twenty in your office at uwi mona i brought you a folder of poems i had not expected you to read right then but…
Each day at dusk, in need of quiet affirmation, a constant gardener hops from branch to strand of electric cable outside our patio to…
Black blood veins palace walls— Whitehall smearing Pall Mall— drains under auction blocks, stains rum and sugar docks. Anguish anchors…
An Oriki for KAMAU 85 Click on images below to start slideshow
I shall not remove my cover My head is sacred ground I shall not cut my beard It is a monument I shall not speak with your tongue I have my…
My santan tone teecha Read me the story— “Scrubbing The Negro” And whenever I see A tub of boiling water I cringe and I cry. Since ABC…
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