Jozi Portrait (a cross-section)

A searing, southern sun on top
Tin roofs, oven-ready
People galvanized
Sip beer, Pirates
Amakhozi talk
Walk
Unsteadily, turn over

Dust blows
Gold’s fine crap on taxi rank in Jozi

Mama starts
Long day’s journey
Skims bald along black satin
Ribbons
Extending, slip through
Ending, fading into
Rough-hewn, blending into

Whirlpools of paper, crap, spin
Unions of dust scatters diagonal marks on Jozi

Childrens’ chatter, play
Along dusty scars
Abandoned cars
Litter
Endless causeways
Meet the veldt
Brown folds
Burn around the edges
Fade to some
Forgotten, ancient time

Wrinkled, eyes squint
Memory haunts
Rocks remind us
Blind us
A land buried
Under Western signs
Gone mad
Clouds sear purple, pink
Sky fades, and folds itself over Jozi


Jozi Portrait (a cross-section)

	A searing, southern sun on top Tin roofs, oven-ready People galvanized Sip beer, Pirates Amakhozi talk Walk Unsteadily, turn over Dust blows Gold’s fine crap on taxi rank in Jozi Mama starts Long day’s journey Skims bald along black satin Ribbons Extending, slip through Ending, fading into Rough-hewn, blending into Whirlpools of paper, crap, spin Unions of dust scatters diagonal marks on Jozi Childrens’ chatter, play Along dusty scars Abandoned cars Litter Endless causeways Meet the veldt Brown folds Burn around the edges Fade to some Forgotten, ancient time Smoke, burn bright outlines Snake eyes, cats eyes stare out of Jozi Wrinkled, eyes squint Memory haunts Rocks remind us Blind us A land buried Under Western signs Gone mad Clouds sear purple, pink Sky fades, and folds itself over Jozi

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