HAUNT (THE KOOLIE)

<p>Mauritian culture is too often known in the West for the dodo: an extinct flightless bird who inhabited the island and died out during European colonisation. It is time to move forward and ensure our robust yet marginalised culture houses and projects all the diverse individual voices within it.</p><p><strong>HAUNT (THE KOOLIE)</strong> is poetry; a neo-Coolie meditation exorcism of racial bigotry and satire of fear-mongering from a decolonial Mauritian-Australian perspective.</p><blockquote><p><em>Suburban mainstream yachts grow giant</em></p><p><em>weeds in driveways outlaw</em></p><p><em>gutter trophies never seem to</em></p><p><em>Like! Find water?</em></p><p><em>But: I am Black enough to hold</em></p><p><em>the Whiteness in me</em></p><p><em>on me and @-me account without counting</em></p><p><em>a graceless film-fade into seething light</em></p><p><em>hide colour enlighten or die</em></p><p><em>settling whiny-rewind VHS scores</em></p><p><em>(At Aussie we’ll save you!)</em></p></blockquote>