Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Notes Verging on a Preface xii
WOMB
For Maleeah 5
Arousal 6
On labour 7
Theft 8
(untitled) 9
Wealth 10
Didar 2008 12
On Unity 14
Body Memory 18
(untitled)
19 On the Immaterial 20
Heart in Throat 21
Breathlessness 22
Mother 24
Tenderness 26
Heroes 27
On love XVIII 28
On love XIX 29
Sudan 2016 30
LAND(S)
Djemaa El-Fna, 2012
37 In search of language 39
On love XX 41
Offerings and convictions, National Action Day in Solidarity with First Nations June 29 2007 42
Souvenir, Cape Town2005 45
For Ottawa, [And all capital cities of the Christianised world] 46
Love or death II 48
Land of the Sky 51
Marrakech 54
Climbing to Mandara, Kilimanjaro 56
Indonesia, 2002 57
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 59
On love XXI 63
Forest Chorus 64
TIDES
For matoke stems and the graveless 69
Hand Washing Story of a Refugee Family 72
For Madrid (or, On the passage of 150 modern years) 74
Yen for the Americas 75
Camera after the storm [or, On collective memory] 76
La mesquinerie 77
On Disease 79
l'Autobus 82
Drifting, or: On industrialisation and deindustrialisation
84 Wooden Dream, Kampala 2007 85
On love XXII 86
Inequality 2005/2015 87
Ice in the lungs 88
Chains 89
breathless 90
WIND
silver and stones 97
Memorial of the King of Lukembe, 2013 101
Early Morning Train 104
Cartography of faith 106
Kalisthenics of Displacement 107
Circumventing Circumcisions 109
leap of hope 111
Wind 113
Toronto, 2004 114
Letter to us via Reetika Vazirani 115
On love XXIII 127
Last Note to a Brother-Comrade 129
Clifton Sunset 131
Bleeding Heart, o rToronto 2016 132
On Methodology 133
Closet Chant 135
Liberation 136
