Tsessebe

Mothers hold babies
in their arms
prodding their gaze
towards the camera

bellies covered
in clothes
only faces show
satiated or not

Mary and Infant Jesus.

Half knowledge is dangerous

Knowledge
Route A (right)
and B (on left)
form a loop

Intended Route
go on A and dont take B (at the beginning)
turn back after the peak

Half knowledge
Dont take B

Detour
when half knowledge
is deployed
each step away
from the destination
The Beginning.

Coffee

forever on the mind
when unavailable
easily forgotten
on the shelf
in a refrigerator

On Turning 45

I will be mad on the road
at the speed limit

A Wallace Stevens poem

is a cemetry of words

Whereways

Early in the morning
as the male black
cat with white feet
and a female cat
belonging to him
hurry down
so does the hiker

A pair of strangers

If I could rise
as high as the lamp
post I could tell
what the bird with
white underbelly
and light sandstone
feathers was

If some go far
some go high
to elude you
In sight
out of reach