New writing
Fiction and prose by established and emerging authors. Send your poetry or fiction to New Writing at skryfwerk@litnet.co.za to be considered for publication on LitNet.
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Objects of desire for Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat
2020-03-17"Like the sea I have chased with my mother, and like
all of these words, I am thinking of you too much."
Papaya for Rainer Maria Rilke, cold plums for me
2020-03-03"I am finally on my own again. Flying solo. Gather this, hunt this, reward yourself with this."
If John Steinbeck had been a poet, I would have loved him
2020-02-26"I have a certain knowledge of madness that no one else speaks of, a certain kind of madness that comes alive at midnight."
Boris Pasternak
2020-02-12"We all had feathers. Then we all had wings. Then we were shipped back home to our physical address."
Giacomo Leopardi
2020-02-05“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.”
Clarissa
2020-01-28“When I’m with Lewis, I think of you; when he yells at me, I think of you; when he hits me, I think of you, Malcolm ...”
Of sin and dreams
2020-01-20“He would never enter the hellhole of a bookmaker’s betting room. So, he would never see how amicably people like old Jonathan were received in the betting room ...”
Broken gangster child
2019-12-12“I think you changed a part of me.
I think I am a little more gangster, too.”
Short and bad
2019-12-03“It’s now been more than two years since I started, and, by now, I’ve written well over 100 000 words. Some of those words are good; most are bad. It doesn’t matter. It absolutely does not matter. What matters is the joy ...”
The sad fact is beautiful, trauma is just like fire, and giving regret the once-over
2019-11-20“You’re mine, love, but
you belong to another, and as a man
you belong to the world.”
You did not take her Honour
2019-11-12“She walks with her head
Higher than yours.
She carries no shame.”
All the king's horses
2019-11-12“Harry’s burgeoning social life left Sue lonely and angry. In an effort to pick up the pieces, she had a makeover and tried to reconnect with him. She popped into his office to collect him for dinner after work, but found the office deserted.”