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Fungisayi Sasa

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GABRIEL GOODNIGHT

GABRIEL GOODNIGHT

GABRIEL GOODNIGHT

your sun has blackened and now it sets night has come at
last there is movement in the air change in the wind’s
direction your voice is now a whispering soprano
beseeching your pet cockerel to crow but it shall
not wake the nation tomorrow a new sun is
rising and as your dead orb plummets over
the edge of your crumbling world
go to sleep Gabriel
goodnight

© 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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GABRIEL GOODNIGHT

your sun has blackened and now it sets night has come at
last there is movement in the air change in the wind’s
direction your voice is now a whispering soprano
beseeching your pet cockerel to crow but it shall
not wake the nation tomorrow a new sun is
rising and as your dead orb plummets over
the edge of your crumbling world
go to sleep Gabriel
goodnight

GABRIEL GOODNIGHT

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