Lauren
Beast in the kitchen –
Drowned thing with her rosary.
At war with the roast.
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Ambrose
Throne. Ghost. Leaf. All guests.
Pale. Ancestral bloodlines – a clever-experiment
In romanticism.
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Mum
Beach-life. A green-ish plate.
Swimming towards velvet rays of light.
A child’s-laugh (bees). Sea mist.
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Dad
Jasmine passion – reel.
Flowers in a lonely mind.
Illness for breakfast.
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Cody
Children underfoot –
There is traffic in my house.
Toy guns. Cowboy hats.
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After leaving Mr. Muirhead
Alleys. Streets. Wolves. Sheep.
The shores-of-Johannesburg do not smell like anything-like-Malibu.
It’s primitive living-for-sale.
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Remember me
The weather that day. Rain and-then-it-stopped.
Flesh. Skin-on-skin’s-compass. Perfume. And more rain.
Keys to not buying post-apartheid things.
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Columbia
To the lighthouse soul.
To Sappho, Antigone’s divine-ceremony.
Go fishing in rifts.
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It’s losing its darkness
Something is damaged –
There is a richness in dust – mother-tongue.
Post-apartheid things. Compasses.
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The hours
You are a typhoon –
Waves in the folds of daylight.
Childhood stars are past.
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Shade in my bedroom
The end of violence –
The world’s feast is not my home.
The heart of worship.
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Inside a public library
I am the June guest –
Greedy for ritual. Sonnets.
Winter possession.
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Success for personal growth
Orlando’s river –
Habits of tsunamis past.
What remains is life.
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Books
I read as a child –
In books, there are valleys. Hills.
Worlds were within reach.
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Ethan
Infatuation –
Winner of America.
Paper tigers ghosts.
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© Abigail George
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