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Mxolisi Nyezwa

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SEA

SEA

SEA

the sea is so heavy inside us
and i won’t sleep tonight.
i have buckets of memory in a jar
that i keep for days and nights like these.

© 2000, Mxolisi Nyezwa
From: Song Trials
Publisher: University of Natal Press (Gecko Poetry), South Africa

Mxolisi Nyezwa

Mxolisi Nyezwa

(South Africa, 1967)

Mxolisi Nyezwa is the editor of Kotaz, a truly multilingual South African journal. He was born in 1967, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He still lives there at 4 Madala Street.

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SEA

THINGS CHANGE

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THE POET’S FAILURE

THE MAN IS GONE

I CANNOT THINK OF ALL THE PAINS

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SEA

the sea is so heavy inside us
and i won’t sleep tonight.
i have buckets of memory in a jar
that i keep for days and nights like these.

From: Song Trials

SEA

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