Still mekin’ foolishness
Hey Anson, w’happen’? I hear you gone an dead!
That’s a dramatic move, boy. No comin’ back from that!
An’ me here mekin’ foolishness again.
I back on the island—well in truth is a different island
Stewart Brown, poet and artist, is Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, and Hon. Associate Professor, Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick. Co-editor (with Mark McWatt) of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Co-editor (with Mervyn Morris and Gordon Rohlehr) of Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (1990). Published several collections of his own poetry, most recently Elsewhere (1999). Still Mekin’ ’Foolishness, his collected poems, is slated for publication by Peepal Tree Press. His BABEL: beautiful, unsayable, meaningless, profound, a visual poetries project, continues to evolve.