Salt
We salt, we brine, we perfume from
the ocean’s stinging breath.
We go, we flow, we ebb, we come
until nothing is left.
A-dZiko Simba Gegele, of Jamaican and Nigerian parentage, is a prize-winning writer, storyteller, spoken word performer and workshop facilitator. Her work reflects her Pan-African perspective and spans multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, screen, and playwriting, and has been published in diverse international anthologies. She is a recipient of the Institute of Jamaica’s Bronze Musgrave Medal for her contribution to literature. Her debut novel, All Over Again, won the inaugural Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. Ms Simba Gegele’s recent book, Justin, Justina and the Money Master, commissioned by the Jamaican Deposit Insurance Corporation, introduces financial literacy to Grade 4 students.