AFTER THE HURRICANE – By Ishion Hutchinson
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AFTER THE HURRICANE – By Ishion Hutchinson

ByNational Library Jamaica

“After The Hurricane” – Read by Ishion Hutchinson “After The Hurricane” After the hurricane walks a silence, deranged, white as thewhite helmetsof government surveyors looking into roofless shacks, accessing stunned fowls, noting inquiriesinto the logic of feathers, reversed, like gullies still retching;they scribble facts about fallen cedars, spread out like dead generals on leafmedallions; they…

BONES BE STILL – By Ishion Hutchinson

BONES BE STILL – By Ishion Hutchinson

ByNational Library Jamaica

“Bones Be Still” – Read by Ishion Hutchinson “Bones Be Still” I see murmuring bones in deep water,awaiting the final rites to rest. O undead, fathers’ bones,make the Atlantic your home, but they wail and curse: We were sacrificedto give you life! Lips remember no songs,hands no rituals, all I haveare headache dreams.The sea swells…