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Amanda Hammar

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Abandoned

house
too long abandoned
weeds pushing apart
scarred bricks
beams of weathered wood
exposed like ribs
no longer able to hold in
the soft heartbeat of
home

Amanda Hammar

(Zimbabwe, 1959)

Amanda Hammar, who was born and educated in Zimbabwe, is now a Professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Widely published as an academic, she is currently editing a volume entitled Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity (forthcoming with Zed Press and Nordic Africa Institute). Amanda has, however, always written poetry, and her fi...

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Abandoned

house
too long abandoned
weeds pushing apart
scarred bricks
beams of weathered wood
exposed like ribs
no longer able to hold in
the soft heartbeat of
home