auntie

tanty virgin, sherry ann and auntie ursula

Maracas mountainside

Uncle Christo in Malick

Daddy Guevera

garden
my aunts front gate in malick

Carenage Bay, 1986
...the wet salted scent of my brothers back at carenage, with its pebble bay...

Sylvia (mammy) my grandmother in Mt Lambert, 1985
She pure cocoa panyol, her blood knits hammocks across the gulf of paria...

' The Experiment', Five Rivers, Arouca 1986
Some Saturdays my brother & I would go up the Arouca mountains to the place he called 'The Experiment'. It was a goverment fruit plantation, hid in deep bush and full of caimet, chenet, barbadine, balata, tamarind. It was always deserted those Saturdays. We'd climb the sugar apple trees and look out over the valley to the canefields south of the island with julie mango juice running down our arms.

Mt Zion, Tobago

Mr Clarence aka Gallstones Granfada Buckmouth, my grandfather, the man I stuttered to call Dadadady. As we say in Trini 'he doh eat nice'. He didn't. oh gorm...

Cousin Carlton's House, Malick
They say big books sent Carlton mad.

Aranguez Savannah
I grew up next to the Savannah. It's spirit pulse. I'd spend days here, roaming the expanse,going down to the sanbox tree by the river, wild indian gardens, hunting batchaks and beetles, then burning them in matchbox discoteques...

Going Caura River, 1980something
My brother with the tire, going to the river...

Noel, my friend. 1981
Noel...

Ramkisoon Trace, Trinidad 1978
Every Carnival my mother would pack her basket and take us into the city. This year my brother and I wore tracksuits from England.

Birdhead Son, The poet, San Juan, Trinidad, 1970
This photo of my brother Dennis & I was taken in my grandfather's yard up Ramkissoon Trace, San Juan, Trinidad. The photographer is unknown.

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