Controlling the Silver.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Island Aubade -- Over the Guinea Grass Piece -- Dear Cousin -- Excavating -- Ode to the Watchman -- Our Ancestral Dwellings -- Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive from Kingston to Lucea, 1952 -- The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on th Island of Allspice -- Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash -- So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art? -- Jah The Baptist -- Poison Crab -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Women -- Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labor-in-Vain Savannah -- Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited -- Aunt Alberta -- Aunt Rose -- The Burden Bearer -- Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations Flanking St. Christopher on the Dashboard -- Hosay -- Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle -- These Three Butterflies and One Bird We Interpret As Signs -- The Geovangelist -- Don C and the Goldman Posse -- Back To Where We Come From -- O Priates Yes They Rob I -- Tombstones -- Where the Flora of Our Village Came from -- By the Light of a Jamaican Moon -- Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer -- Hirfa of Egypt -- What of Tuktoo the Little Eskimo? -- Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean -- Louis Galdy of the World's Once Wickedest City -- Remittance Man -- Black Like This? -- Pleasant Sunday Evenings -- Passing the Empty Playground -- What the Witnesses Saw When They Entered the Balm Yard -- This River Named by Our Great-Grandfather -- River Mumma -- The River Mumma Wants Out -- The Wisdom of Cousin Fool-Fool Rose -- In the Field of Broken Pots -- But I May Be Reborn As Keke -- At Harmony Hall We Buy an Egyptian Blue Cecil Baugh Mug -- Change If You Must Just Change Slow -- All the Way to Kingston We Recall Urban Legends -- Whatever Became of MaMud? -- The Yard Man: An Election Poem -- Controlling the Silver -- Old Blue Nun -- Making Life.

Your Ice Art, Michigan -- Broadview -- Missing the Goat -- Spirit Catcher -- The Crying Philosopher and the Laughing Philosopher -- All Souls Day -- Hard Food -- Breadfruit Thoughts -- Rites -- Carnevale -- Aunt Ann -- The Liberator Speaks -- Palm Roses -- At the Keswick Museum -- Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969 -- Half Moon Bay -- Arriving at the Airport Once Called Idlewild -- Apollo Double Bill -- Guernica -- I Buy My Son A Reed -- I Saw Charles Mingus -- A Simple Apology.

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