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"I hope you forgive me, Ma. I thought this was the only way to make the pain go away."

"about Syria
Libya, Afghanistan
say something about Nairobi"

"In ancient tongue they celebrated,
whispering charming syllables"

"Nqo-nqo-nqo
Is anybody home?
I have been walking for 26 years"

"Release the cables wound around
Your lungs so tight that not a sound
Of truly you can squeeze it through
To open up for all to view"

"at a delicate and fragile eighty
she still wears mascara
lavender and lace"

"Visions of soft, weeping rain drenching fynbos
A lonely, cold krantz echoing baboon and jackal"

"The power of a soothing, steaming
Slightly searing Epsom salts bath"

"Combining human touch and technology
The net of memory
The web of unity"

"There is longitude
there is latitude
diagonals
depth and circumference"

"Adorable and romantically possessed,
but with good looks no longer blessed,
he still delighted in the liveliness of progeny"

"Like the sea I have chased with my mother, and like
all of these words, I am thinking of you too much."

"I am finally on my own again. Flying solo. Gather this, hunt this, reward yourself with this."

"I have a certain knowledge of madness that no one else speaks of, a certain kind of madness that comes alive at midnight."

"The night wind sprang up suddenly,
like a startled rat"

"lit like fisherman’s lantern
Swinging in a dark sea"

"a corpse deceased and silent,
it touches the wet, grey beach"

"We all had feathers. Then we all had wings. Then we were shipped back home to our physical address."

“Dancing, delicate
Bleached and starched”

“I am Emily Dickinson’s winter revisited in Amherst-land. I am so much more aware of age and getting older than I have ever been.”