Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Mabheleni Dam

I flick this rod
swishing through
the evening air

the fly kissing
the meniscus

I know there
are poems in here

I see their
darting
bright flanks
reflect the
setting sun

and others have
caught such
giants here

As the water cools
my hips

I think of
Robert Johnson
selling his soul
for the blues

I wade in
over my head
for a time

but nothing down
there makes any
sense at all

just noise

Patience 

I hear my father say
as I feel my breath run low

The poems choose you my boy 





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