Syncretism
For good measure, she saw an obeah man,
exposing her long untouched breasts,
she stood trembling on the bathroom floor,
stepped into some muddy waters
of the bathtub, strapped a thin slice of pork
to her vagina.
Category: YVONNE WEEKES
Lifting the Veil
Kinsale is a small village in Montserrat where she lived for a year when they left London in ‘67. Every child in Kinsale could swim except Clarice and her siblings. She would watch the children with envy while driving in the father’s car. The sheer laughter and absolute joy of the other children had been denied them. She wished then she could have simply jumped into the water on a Sunday afternoon.
