Controlling the Silver Book

	Island Aubade	1
	Over the Guinea grass piece	4
	Dear cousin	5
	Excavating	7
	Ode to the watchman	8
	Our ancestral dwellings	10
	Recalling the fourteen hour drive from Kingston to Lucea, 1953	11
	The wandering Jew and the Arab merchant on the Island of Allspice	12
	Passing the grace vessels of Calabash	14
	So who was the mother of Jamaican art?	15
	Jah the Baptist	16
	Poison crab	17
	Let us now praise famous women	18
	Fool-fool rose is leaving labor-in-vain savannah	19
	Rainstorm is weeping : an Arawak folk tale revisited	20
	Aunt Alberta	21
	Aunt Rose	22
	The burden bearer	23
	Travelling with photographs of our generations flanking St. Christopher on the Dashboard	24
	Hosay	25
	Creation story : why our island is shaped like a turtle	26
	These three butterflies and one bird we interpret as signs	28
	The geovangelist	31
	Don C and the Goldman posse	33
	Back to where we come from	34
	O pirates yes they rob I	35
	Tombstones	37
	Where the flora of our village came from	39
	By the light of a Jamaican moon	40
	Lessons learned from the royal primer	41
	Hirfa of Egypt	42
	What of Tuktoo the little Eskimo?	43
	Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean	44
	Louis Galdy of the world's once wickedest city	45
	Remittance man	46
	Black like this?	47
	Pleasant Sunday evenings	48
	Passing the empty playground	49
	What the witnesses saw when they entered the balm yard	50
	This river named by our great-grandfather	51
	River Mumma	53
	The River Mumma wants out	54
	The wisdom of cousin fool-fool rose	55
	In the field of broken pots	58
	But I may be reborn as Keke	59
	At Harmony Hall we buy an Egyptian blue Cecil Baugh mug	60
	Change if you must just change slow	61
	All the way to Kingston we recall urban legends	62
	Whatever became of MaMud?	63
	The yard man : an election poem	64
	Controlling the silver	65
	Old blue nun	69
	Making life	70
	Your ice art, Michigan	72
	Broadview	73
	Missing the goat	74
	Spirit catcher	75
	The crying philosopher and the laughing philosopher	76
	All Souls Day	77
	Hard food	78
	Breadfruit thoughts	79
	Rites	80
	Carnevale	81
	Aunt Ann	83
	The liberator speaks	84
	Palm roses	86
	At the Keswick Museum	87
	Bam chi chi la la : London, 1969	89
	Half Moon Bay	90
	Arriving at the airport once called Idlewild	91
	Apollo Double Bill	92
	Guernica	94
	I buy my son a reed	96
	I saw Charles Mingus	97
	A simple apology	98