Sake of a Seiche by Pamela Mordecai I don’t care if is sake of a seiche dem fishing-fellows suddenly find a fund of fish to fill up dem net after dem sit on Kinneret one whole long night and never get nuttin him who make sea and seiche never need to search for fecundity in a sea him same one make dat no plain? and de fellows was going to fish in de end not for finned catch but dem as have foot and forehead forearm—and folly best dem know bounty is a blessing bestowed
Pamela Mordecai is a Jamaican Canadian poet who often writes in Patwa or Creole inflected English. She writes across genres — long fiction, short fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction — for children and adults. She has published nine books of poetry, most recently A FIERCE GREEN PLACE (New Directions, 2022) and DE BOOK OF JOSEPH (Mawenzi House, 2022), third in a series in Jamaican Creole about the life and death of Jesus, DE MAN and DE BOOK OF MARY being the first two books. All three books are subtitled: A PERFORMANCE POEM.
