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 |