Mooring
SHAUNA M. MORGAN I reach for you, curled image, latched in the gulf of my belly, I pray that my body keeps you corded to me in blood. You are mine. I feel you in the ache of my breasts, imagine you resting there, little hands...
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Streetsweeper
JENELLE SAMUELS I sweep in the dark of the morning, under streetlights, when Kingston is quiet, where the only thing on the road is a mongrel dog that keeps me company if I feed him. He will tell me through a rise in his...
Read Morefrom Spain Town to outer space and other poems
MBALA MGABO from Spain Town to outer space clad in khaki and hush puppy shoes young boy with old man walk I hunt the Thursday-new comics from the magazine rack in Victory drugstore on Cumberland Avenue to that dark shop on...
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A Reckoning with Indentureship at the Rijks Museum
Co-curated by the museum’s Senior Conservator Eveline Sint Nicolaas and artist Sarojini Lewis, the exhibition takes the June 5, 1873, docking of the ship Lalla Rookh in Suriname as its starting point and gives special focus to the lives of women and girls under Indentureship.
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Dharammati Tara Sharma
Miss Tara breathe life into the ancient texts of Hinduism. She was a walking Ramayana. A steadfast follower of Shri Raam. Her childhood is filled with instances of recalcitrance, rebellion. On Sunday, when I last visited her, she told me of how frankly she answered her commanding father, ‘You didn’t make me.’ She was telling her puzzled, reverent father, that she was not of his making alone, but of Shri Raam Bhagwan.
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