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In assemblies we badly sang in flat vowels ‘His first avowed intent/ To be a pilgrim’ that was lost on me

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What would kindness do right now?

Allow everything, - yet ungrip

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Ears hum their strings

Erelong (how very pretentious of me), I feel the skip into a mind-wander, a different landscape of bush

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In the morning, let the sun shine in

A recent visit to our old home in Bulawayo by my sister's cousin, Thandi, stirs for me some old memories.

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Everyone knows one

I am almost glad I can't see in. The wall locks in the memories we stow away

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