Immemorial
Is long time now
from before “whoppie kill fillup”
from before eye deh a knee
before the crofts of Carty and McCarty
left their tartans in the Minho's tributary.
Millicent A.A. Graham lives in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of two collections of poetry, The Damp in Things (Peepal Tree Press, 2009) and The Way Home (Peepal Tree Press, 2014). She is a fellow of the University of Iowa International Writing Program, 2009, and an awardee of the Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to Bread Loaf Writer Conference, 2010. Her work has been published in: Jamaica Journal, The Caribbean Writer, Bim, So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets, Yonder Awa, an anthology of Scottish and Caribbean writers for the Empire Cafe Project, and most recently A Strange American Funeral, edited by Freya Field-Donovan and Emmie McLuskey and designed by Maeve Redmond.