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Amanda Hammar

Zimbabwe Lost

Zimbabwe Lost

Zimbabwe Lost

I

What kind of African.
My skin
the colour of colonisation.


II

Rooted baobab-deep.
Orphaned now
by the quarrels of history.


III

Moving
from an ache to an agony
flesh tears from bone
heart from home.
Amanda Hammar

Amanda Hammar

(Zimbabwe, 1959)

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Zimbabwe Lost

I

What kind of African.
My skin
the colour of colonisation.


II

Rooted baobab-deep.
Orphaned now
by the quarrels of history.


III

Moving
from an ache to an agony
flesh tears from bone
heart from home.

Zimbabwe Lost

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