Mahogany

Mahogany traces the poet’s fraught journey into self-actualization in the shadow of capitalism. The poems travel from the galleries of pre-war Kyiv, where she questions her role as her artist partner’s muse, back in time to her father’s doctoral dissertation on Belize’s postcolonial economic condition, written during her childhood. Through this juxtaposition, the poet begins to explore the mother wound as she struggles to mother her own child.