Eliza Junor, born 1804, Demerara, died Fortrose, 1861; daughter of Hugh Junor, slave owner from the Black Isle, and an unknown mother, probably a slave, or a ‘free coloured’ woman. Died Fortrose, 1861; won a prize for penmanship at Fortrose Academy. I’ve learned my letters well – my copperplate masts and sailsflow across the page, […]
Shame in our hulls
/ why else would we drink to incoherence
/ jump on the heads of passing men
/ punch our women
/ tell our children…
Inna calabash
tell them that the baby
that count in them census already
Inna calabash
Cavernous – and empty now – / no shouts of dockers, / no barefoot women shovelling / molasses – it…
The power of Thought—the magic of the Mind! …
