Table of Contents
Mother Muse 11
New Year's morning 1965 12
The Near Noonday Dance of Sister Iggy 14
Sugar 15
A Rose From Saint Therese 16
The Call-Version 1 18
The Call-Mary's Version 20
Sister Iggy Thinks of Jessi Ripole 22
What Sister Iggy Saw 24
The Alpha Boys at Vespers 25
Boxing Lessons With Sister Iggy 27
Sister Iggy Deejay 28
Sister Iggy Speaks of Donald 29
The Poet and Margarita 31
Margarita's Version 33
The Fisherman Cannot Sing of the Cedars of Lebanon 35
Her Mother Loved Poetry 37
A Praise for Margarita Anita 38
A Lament for Margarita Mahfouz 39
Saturday Night at the Movies 40
Grounation 41
Who Knows Where or When 42
Woman a Come (1) 43
Woman a Come (2) 45
The Dark Destroyer 46
Night Rescue 48
Testimony of a Friend 50
Testimony of Her Rasta Brethren 51
Psalms of the Brethren 52
On the Day Teacher Gave I This as a Song to Sing 53
Psalm of the Sistren 55
Psalms of the Brethren to the Sistren 56
Chant of the Brethren and Sistren 58
Journey of the Three Dreads 60
Lalibela 62
Shashemane 63
Hie You Away from that Nunnery 65
Housewife's Choice 67
Sister Iggy and Margarita Cross Over to the Field of the Laments 68
Old Photographs from Mother 69
Busha's Woman 71
Testimony of First of August Negroes 72
Address to the Weed in the Cane Piece 73
Quasheba's Lament 74
Last Words 75
Lament of the Wee-Droppers 76
Many Native Women Missing 78
Quilt 79
This Pastel on Paper Laid on Aluminium Portrait Shows 81
Maiden's Blood Energy Drinks 83
Bring Back Our Girls 84
Talitha Cumi 86
Our Lady Marion Anderson 87
Advert for Mahalia's Singing 88
For Sandra Bland 89
Say Something for Me English? 90
A Woman Like You 92
Lioness 93
Christmas Market 95
For Nigel 97
Good Friday 98
All Saints 100
Acknowledgements 103
