Dana Gilkes

Dana Gilkes is a Barbadian-born writer, lecturer and visual artist, and graduated from City University of New York’s Hunter College with a BA in English (Writing Hons) as well as from Columbia University with an MA in English and Comparative Literature. Her writing awards include the Commonwealth Short Story Competition; the Frank Collymore Literary Award; the Packer and Dattner Award for personal essay writing (Hunter College). Her creative writing has appeared in Bim; Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters; Commonwealth Currents; and POUi. She is the author of Anatomy of a Scream (2007).

Flight of a Golden-Tongued Blackbird

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1. A blackbird flew off the garden wall. 2. Duly impoverished wall! Full acquittal? Or the blackbird’s fury/flurry left— to contend with?

The Push Participant

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I do not know but dawn favours a grey house across the street from me, painting it bright serene aka lighter salmon-coral that fades toward pink-conch.

Blackbird Aria

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The dew bristles with bright tufts of grass. The only noise for one hundred and sixty-six square miles—

Blackbird-Pragmatic or Where the Blackbird Goes to Church

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Ready as want to tout relief, Between a sigh and anxious yield, A blackbird calmly high-stepping On the trash-gold of a cane-field.

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