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Kobus Moolman

Broken jars of sleep

Broken jars of sleep

Broken jars of sleep.

The expensive shadow a mouth carries
between bedrooms.

Seven waves.

A mule dragging a cold wind
over ice.

Two silences: one
outside the entrance to the past,
the other deep within.
Kobus Moolman

Kobus Moolman

(Zuid-Afrika, 1964)

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Broken jars of sleep

Broken jars of sleep.

The expensive shadow a mouth carries
between bedrooms.

Seven waves.

A mule dragging a cold wind
over ice.

Two silences: one
outside the entrance to the past,
the other deep within.

Broken jars of sleep

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