I: The Sommelier’s Commute.

The first chapter of a series of ten inter-connected short stories about different people on their commutes to work. This work takes inspiration from Ezra Pound's imagist poem "In a Station on the Metro", and attempts to explore that feeling of meeting the same people on trains, but you're unsure if they're the same

Bearing witness to the wake-differend’s of slavery.

How can one tell the story that can't be told, which must be told? M. NourbeSe Phillip's seminal poetry collection Zong! seeks to answer this pertinent question. Her answer through 'not telling'. This essay proposes a collation of the works of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend with Christina Sharpe's In The Wake to bear witness to stories that cannot be told; by bearing witness to the wake-differend.