The text provided here does not strictly constitute material within the Kalinago poetic tradition of the Lesser Antilles, which though historically well-attested and even contemporarily demonstrated at the cultural center Kalinago Barana Aute on the island of Dominica, offers no English translation of truly traditional literature. While some pieces utlizing the reconstructed Kalinago language were found, it was determined that brief spoken phrases from 19th-century fluent speakers recorded in an early grammar of the language would provide a richer experience of the evocative aesthetic qualities of Kalinago. The judgement call resulting in this provisional selection is liable to change based on future research.