Broadening the scope of his award-winning debut to consider the wider Indo-Caribbean community in migration across the Americas and Europe, Rajiv Mohabir uses his queer and mixed-caste identities as grace notes to charm alienation into silence. Mohabir's inheritance of myths, folk tales, and multilingual translations make a palimpsest of histories that bleed into one another. A descendant of indentureship survivors, the poet-narrator creates an allegorical chronicle of dislocations and relocations, linking India, Guyana, Trinidad, New York, Orlando, Toronto, and Honolulu, combining the amplitude of mythology with direct witness and sensual reckoning, all the while seeking joy in testimony.

The cowherd's son --
Holi lovesport --
A body of myths --
Touch me not --
Vivah at the Durga temple --
Relief --
Paper lantern --
Coolitude --
Indenture --
Diabetes prayer --
Rum and coca-cola --
Blind man's whilst --
El dorado, 1998 --
Bulbul --
Sita --
Temple in the sea --
Ode to Richmond hill --
Wound --
A prayer at Nauraat --
Deepak raga --
Butchering a hen --
Your mother prays in the Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Mantra --
Holi --
Light the city --
Cow minah: Aji tells a story --
Mynah --
My name is a map --
Mysterious alembics --
Bound coolie --
The river-son's betrayal --
Bismillah --
Fall --
Chamber music --
Malhar raga --
Change --
Henna --
ift from a grandmother --
Tuberculosis --
A letter from nana to nani --
Fade --
Back-home games in Florida --
Standing on a Brampton driveway before the snow --
Haunting --
Emptying in the sea --
Dirge for Kamal --
Orbit of exterior wildfires --
Unwitting pilgrim.