"Licking wounds" assumes that it is the tongue (organ-speech) that heals the sore. It assumes that in the repetition of this gesture it heals. The secretion mixed with the blood heals. Saliva and blood; mixed together, sticky, iron taste of disgusting wine colour. And that is what these texts do: they revisit the colonial wound we carry. A wound shared by those who come from colonized and colonizing geographies. This work is an invitation to taste the bitter flavour of that blood coagulated for years; to smell it, to feel it, to look at these stories in order to try to make reparation.