Listen, the day you reached
into the car compartment
for the house keys and didn’t
find them, only jumbie beads
I’d collected out running,
and we checked, and panicked,
and pulling up outside
our then apparent house,
checked again for the keys
and there they were, easily:
that unsafe stashed mir…
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer. Her work includes Measures of Expatriation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Utter, which speaks from her experience as an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer. She is travelling to the Caribbean and East Africa, on a Harper-Wood Studentship, to write about natural and cultivated environments.
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