To the dead of the 2007-2008 Election Violence in Kenya. HAIKU AND OTHER POEMS FROM KENYA is a memorial, a monument of remembrance to them - Kenya's forgotten dead. Ten years later there is no acknowledgement of their deaths, their suffering, their loss. HAIKU AND OTHER POEMS FROM KENYA is a monument to the memory of those Kenyans who died because they voted in the 2007 Elections. In their memory, HAIKU AND OTHER POEMS FROM KENYA is a memorial to these dead – those who died for the crime of casting their vote in Kenya’s election.

To Yusuf, valiant Father: You parried the Sword of the Angel of Death and sailed the mystique barque beyond the rage of Duat.

And for Woudd Khreduonkh, for he it is who first unveiled the wisdom

And for Akaatch. She of the gifted cleared-eyed mystic gaze for She is Akaatch, She who gifted the gift.