What I know about zombies?

Haiti invented them, as did

The US, The French, The Spaniards

slavery and the Caribs,

but mostly it was sugar.

Papa Legba or your local

houngan could have something

to say about the dearth above.

See cat people – or that other

Tournier with the canefield carrefour.

Clairvius Narcisse is the

man to find if you’re writing

an ethnobiology of the

Haitian zombe – muchas

gracias Wade Davis – would

you like a photo of him

in a domed reading room? Scour

a national geographic from 2001.

Le potan mideau – am I getting

these words right bokor?

Who went to Cuba to have

a hole dug in their kitchen,

a treasure chest revealed

and reburied – Poppy Z Brite?

Steve Austin the robot? Travels

with my Aunt? Thomas Rowlandson?

The Fon, the Fonz, Franz Fanon…

Toussaint L’Ouverture!