People Vanish
You and perhaps I Know that people do disappear vanish into slender air engulfed by issues social in circumstances intensely human swallowed up whole individuals, couples, groups hastily…
Covid-19
Covid-19 subdued us compromised our languages Our muffled words have gaping loopholes and potholes our words jiggle like jelly as we cast furtive glances and maintain distance Our…
Ultra Fast Dream
How do I hold fast to a speeding dream ultra-fast and zigzagging a dreams that darts across vast spaces How, tell me, do I hold fast to a…
Word-Scratcher’s Toil
Day and night our hearts swell and crack As we struggle with lines signs and images hoping that from our strife thrilling flowers will emerge We hope healing…
Turpitude
Why is it that only the tainted are allowed to breath? Only the jaded are permitted to dream in this land of throttled aspirations only the hollow-eyed are…
Pauper Friends
My unforgettable friends My pauper friends Your revolting sorrow Is an open wound Your ice-cold dreams Mumble mournful tunes Your concave bellies Rumble like idling engines Your dinner-plate…
Harare at Night
Miniskirts clinging to hopeful hips heads shaking in rhythmic madness waists swaying to anguished drumbeats cigarette butts fondled by shame-wet lips Money-agony decorating walls of dream houses arrogant…
Lava of Change
Do you not perceive this buoyant lava? A new force Marching to create It’s lava force unchained jutting through the tin-pot crater The lava force feeds you with…
Moments of Silence
We have known silence that swallows all sound eerie creepy silence silence after storms silence before pain silence that follows shame brutal grating silence muffling last screams silence…
Gallery of Eyes
In her mazy long life She has seen all kinds of eyes Narrow deeply injured eyes grey obstinate eyes ghost-bright eyes Radar-like glittering eyes meek burdened eyes feverish…
Under the Eye of the Sky
Under the denuding eye of the ever-alert sky we invented languages of peace Under the prosaic drone of jaded time We rendered neoteric melodies Under the threat of…
Gaborone
This city conceived as a tiny station was truly born in the nineteen sixties. The seventies saw it expand massively thanks to diamonds found at the edge of…