<p><em>Washing Water</em>&nbsp;is a poetry collection that lilts life through the eyes of Caribbean girls and women across the African diaspora. The poems weave vignettes of ancestor-women known and unknown who have lived the fat belly of life and understand its joys and imperfections. The poems in&nbsp;<em>Washing Water</em>&nbsp;entwine stories lived and dreamed from little girl into womanhood-stories that hold hands with ancestors and progeny to talk together of rain and wash water.</p>