Mxolisi Nyezwa
this little girl this little girl outside kfc in njoli road asking me for food could not tell me why the moon tore her heart and wrung her body like a spell.
this little girl outside kfc in njoli road asking me for food
could not tell me why the moon tore her heart and wrung her body like a spell.
for days i looked for my poems for days i looked for my poems in the streets, and since i could not find them, light fell like a flower on the lonely square. The light sounded the drum of a thud. beauty came grovelling forward begging, and children went for days without food.
for days i looked for my poems in the streets, and since i could not find them, light fell like a flower on the lonely square.
The light sounded the drum of a thud. beauty came grovelling forward begging, and children went for days without food.
(Both of these poems first appeared in New Country, published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press) Return to South African Writing Introduction and Contents Page
(Both of these poems first appeared in New Country, published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)
Return to South African Writing Introduction and Contents Page
