What the Baobab Knows
Lerato Molefe
What the Baobab Knows
Lerato MolefePoetry
R150
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About this book
Short essays and prose poems written under, about, and occasionally to a two-thousand-year-old tree.
Sample
ROOT The baobab keeps water the way my aunt keeps grief: quietly, at capacity, and only for a drought she is certain is coming. CENSUS The form asked for my tribe. I wrote: *survivors of the second bus.* The clerk wrote: *other.* We were both correct. WHAT THE BAOBAB KNOWS That a hundred years is a season. That the goats will come back. That everyone who carved a name into me intended to return, and some of them did.…
The author
Lerato Molefe is a South African essayist and poet from Limpopo.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 168
- Published
- 2023
- Chapters available
- 1