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Mxolisi Nyezwa
WALKING
WALKING
WALKING
i keep still. in my shirt and in my elementi feel the vein’s tremor, the heart’s pulse,
the weed through the skull, through a piece of air
around my skull.
i see the unstable dark sea, furious
and on my back, my spine, the vertebral sky.
i look the cold stranger in the eye,
the looming humour, earth’s forgotten smiles.
i walk the length in an unbending street.
i knock down a bird’s wing. i see a universe
speeding down a broken sky. i don’t stop.
i see men circling towards an unmoving crowd.
© 2000, Mxolisi Nyezwa
From: Song Trials
Publisher: University of Natal Press (Gecko Poetry), South Africa
From: Song Trials
Publisher: University of Natal Press (Gecko Poetry), South Africa
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WALKING
i keep still. in my shirt and in my elementi feel the vein’s tremor, the heart’s pulse,
the weed through the skull, through a piece of air
around my skull.
i see the unstable dark sea, furious
and on my back, my spine, the vertebral sky.
i look the cold stranger in the eye,
the looming humour, earth’s forgotten smiles.
i walk the length in an unbending street.
i knock down a bird’s wing. i see a universe
speeding down a broken sky. i don’t stop.
i see men circling towards an unmoving crowd.
From: Song Trials
WALKING
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