Dabydeen’s Coolie Odyssey: another side of the Caribbean immigration experience

Coolie Mother

Jasmattie live in bruk –

Down hut big like Bata shoe box,

Beat clothes, weed yard, chop wood, feed fowl

For this body and that body and every blasted body,

Fetch water, all day fetch water like if the whole –

Whole slow-flowing Canje River God create

Just for she one own bucket.

Till she foot bottom crack and she hand cut up