Departure
The inexpressible angst that grips and knots my stomach tight The emptiness that settles in The sharp forked pain in my chest I...
14
Oct
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July
Lost in July cold with a stranger in a strange café The chill rises and leaves from feet up to the...
23
Sep
Belonging Everywhere
I sink my feet in my mother’s compound Warm wet and oil black soil sips in between my toes I say to...
21
Jul
I Will Wait for Thunder
The nights get anxious when they think of me. The days await dusk for a momentous sigh of relief The cold gets...
23
Jun
Ironies In History
Once the freedom fighters have been hanged as the oppressors, And the resistance fighters have been exiled, Once the taxpayers have been...
30
Apr
Part I Requiem_When All This Is Over
When all this is over I will remember the distance and the silence between two - long like a ribbon of...
13
Apr
Part II Requiem_When All This Is Over
When all this is over We will remember the pitiful anticipation the nights before dawn As we waited for each day’s proclamation We...
13
Apr
My Mother Weeps at Night
Sometimes when I’m alone I think of her The spaces in her heart that hurt, The sorrow she feels that only silence...
27
Oct
Sometimes the Sun Looks Like It’s on Fire
That last day in April, You will remember the fire that was in my eyes, dancing But then you were the water...
23
Jun
I Long to Soliloquize in my Mother Tongue
There is a space after the last period, Where love ends and lust begins, Where peace ends and wars begin, And I long...
02
Jun