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As I sit in front of my computer, I ready myself to write. The writing journey starts with me tasting the words as they pop from my mind and roll onto my tongue. They whisper, “Write me down.”  [...]

Mandla was a six-year-old little boy from a small town in the Free State province named Frankfort. He was a very smart boy who had just started his first grade at school. On his birthday, his [...]

Oodles of pleasurable pastimes Delicate typography Artscapes that delight Poetry to serenade Long walks that rejuvenate Sitting beside the ducks Dreaming of clover-bedecked days Sunshine [...]

Living in the stormwater pipes deep underground the pavements of Sandton, you let your blankets go not to drown in the downpours. For most of 30 years you were always in the garden harvesting [...]

“The devil finds work for idle hands”. That’s how my siblings and I learned that rest was not just a “luxury we could afford”, but that indulging in it can get us in serious trouble. And we were [...]

The bee man removes bees at night when they’re home from foraging. Dark is a hive filled with sleeping bees, carried unawares through the streets, as bats’ echoes locate between trees, and [...]

Layard, Cuckoo, Quelea’s Widows You treacherous thief at the tip of tails and twigs, twisting thy thorny troubling fangs; a feast. A nest’s cling wails with the wind. Yet yesterday, at the far [...]

I am the Pretzel A Con/tor/tion/ist My veins in a seige, do not welcome the saviour The neeeedle shrills for a line They dance. The dance of the nerves Swarming……; circling cheeks and shoulders [...]

Losing someone to the hands of death will make you want to charge God for murder. I’ve learnt to speak in one of the most complicated languages, forgiveness. But how do I write about the truth [...]

You threw my name on a dirty floor With the phrase “you disgust me”. Not a single thought That I could possibly be the water That should cleanse your sins. Now a burst of the placenta, A whole [...]