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Looking Back
By Mofenyi Kesego Looking Back captures a moment in which a young man stares back at the camera that imposes its gaze on him. This moment, brief though it was,… Read more
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Song of Praise
By Keabetswe Molotsi Afa opens the door just as I’m about to knock. She stands before me, her ample curves clad in threadbare, pink pyjamas. The bags under her bloodshot… Read more
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The Things We Carry
By Baone Peace Moalosi We carry bodies – ours,Theirs, broken ones, blamed ones.We carry names we don’t say anymore.We carry hands we trusted,Until they turned into weapons. We carry beds… Read more
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The Slow Unravelling
By Dr Teedzani Thapelo i wake with the weight of sixty years, the days pressed deep into my skineach wrinkle a map of lost vitality, a fading memory of strengthmy… Read more
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In Your Son’s Arms
By Noah Vale She looks for a father’s love in your son’s armsravaging a spine of light in dark mattercheated out her dress by your son’s tongue After what had… Read more
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Breath of the Earth
By Dr Teedzani Thapelo i stand here, lungs heavy with the ash of indifferencegrey tendrils curling like smoke from a fire that never coolsevery breath i take—half stolen, half given… Read more
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Inheritance
By Noah Vale I wrote a poem today and hated it And in its mirror, I hated me How can I love a woman when I grew up Thinking my… Read more
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Contemplative Fantah
By Mofenyi Kesego Contemplative Fantah portrays a young man leaning towards and looking out of a window. The beauty of this moment is the ambiguity of the pose: it’s hard… Read more
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