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Controlling the Silver

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Contents

Island Aubade................................................................................................1Over the Guinea Grass Piece..................................................................................4Dear Cousin..................................................................................................5Excavating...................................................................................................7Ode to the Watchman..........................................................................................8Our Ancestral Dwellings......................................................................................10Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive from Kingston to Lucea, 1953...............................................11The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on the Island of Allspice............................................12Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash........................................................................14So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?.......................................................................15Jah the Baptist..............................................................................................16Poison Crab..................................................................................................17Let Us Now Praise Famous Women...............................................................................18Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labor-in-Vain Savannah.............................................................19Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited..........................................................20Aunt Alberta.................................................................................................21Aunt Rose....................................................................................................22The Burden Bearer............................................................................................23Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations Flanking St. Christopher on the Dashboard.....................24Hosay........................................................................................................25Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle.......................................................26These Three Butterflies and One Bird We Interpret as Signs...................................................28The Geovangelist.............................................................................................31Don C And the Goldman Posse..................................................................................33Back To Where We Come From...................................................................................34O Pirates Yes They Rob I.....................................................................................35Tombstones...................................................................................................37Where the Flora of Our Village Came from.....................................................................39By the Light of a Jamaican Moon..............................................................................40Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer........................................................................41Hirfa of Egypt...............................................................................................42What of Tuktoo the Little Eskimo?............................................................................43Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean...........................................................44Louis Galdy of the World's Once Wickedest City...............................................................45Remittance Man...............................................................................................46Black Like This?.............................................................................................47Pleasant Sunday Evenings.....................................................................................48Passing the Empty Playground.................................................................................49What the Witnesses Saw When They Entered the Balm Yard.......................................................50This River Named by Our Great-Grandfather....................................................................51River Mumma..................................................................................................53The River Mumma Wants Out....................................................................................54The Wisdom Of Cousin Fool-Fool Rose..........................................................................55In the Field of Broken Pots..................................................................................58But I May Be Reborn As Keke..................................................................................59At Harmony Hall We Buy an Egyptian Blue Cecil Baugh Mug......................................................60Change If You Must Just Change Slow..........................................................................61All the Way to Kingston We Recall Urban Legends..............................................................62Whatever Became of MaMud?....................................................................................63The Yard Man: An Election Poem...............................................................................64Controlling the Silver.......................................................................................65Old Blue Nun.................................................................................................69Making Life..................................................................................................70Your Ice Art, Michigan.......................................................................................72Broadview....................................................................................................73Missing the Goat.............................................................................................74Spirit Catcher...............................................................................................75The Crying Philosopher and the Laughing Philosopher..........................................................76All Souls Day................................................................................................77Hard Food....................................................................................................78Breadfruit Thoughts..........................................................................................79Rites........................................................................................................80Carnevale....................................................................................................81Aunt Ann.....................................................................................................83The Liberator Speaks.........................................................................................84Palm Roses...................................................................................................86At the Keswick Museum........................................................................................87Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969..............................................................................89Half...