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Fungisayi Sasa

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MONSTERS

MONSTERS

MONSTERS

they shut
themselves
behind doors
in darkening rooms
                                                           lost
in the blankness of
reality
shadows
                              flit
back
                        forth
everywhere
memory has
broken through
barriers
of the mind

© 2010, Fungisayi Sasa
Publisher: First published on PIW,

Fungisayi Sasa

Fungisayi Sasa

(Zimbabwe, 1983)

Fungisayi Sasa is a Zimbabwean writer living in England. Her first children’s book The Search Head (Eloquent Books, 2008) is available on Amazon. She has had a short story published in the anthology Writing Lives (Weaver Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared on Poetry International and in Spilt Milk, a magazine. She is currently working on a short story collection and a novel. Her poem 300 Roun...

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FLIGHT PATHS

MR PRESIDENT

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MONSTERS

they shut
themselves
behind doors
in darkening rooms
                                                           lost
in the blankness of
reality
shadows
                              flit
back
                        forth
everywhere
memory has
broken through
barriers
of the mind

MONSTERS

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