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Fungisayi Sasa

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PYRO\'S ODE TO PRUFROCK

PYRO\'S ODE TO PRUFROCK

PYRO\'S ODE TO PRUFROCK

let’s start a fire then you and i
blaze a path through
this gulf between us
rage ferociously
each hungry for the other
till we touch and burn
the flesh off our bones

© 2009, 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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PYRO\'S ODE TO PRUFROCK

let’s start a fire then you and i
blaze a path through
this gulf between us
rage ferociously
each hungry for the other
till we touch and burn
the flesh off our bones

PYRO\'S ODE TO PRUFROCK

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