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Dorian Haarhoff

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NAMIBIA

wild west land
holster in the hip of Africa
strung on the studded belt of Capricorn.

the sun lassoos the rain
tugged from the bare backed land
the rocks crack in pistol shots.

yet on a sparse frontier
crossed freely, are
the cattle of the heart.

Dorian Haarhoff

(South Africa, 1944)

Dorian Haarhoff, a South African/Namibian poet, facilitates creative writing and story-telling wordshops, and acts as a one-on-one writing mentor. In a past life, a professor of English literature in Namibia, Dorian now tinkers his trade in the street markets of the world. Mythology, creation spirituality, whole brain theory, the new ohysics, narrative therapy, Ubuntu, Eco and Jungian psycholog...

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