Overberg

English

Clean and Shiny Hair

Any time I try to sit down and contemplate the “seriousness” of reality and all its demands (mostly made by people who want economic number-to-go-up all of the time), I fail miserably.
Reality
Existence
Being
In the face of, and in contrast to, not being
Is laughably absurd, and no matter how you try, you cannot intimidate me with it.
I laugh at every attempt and so it is a daily practice of mine to contemplate the various individual demands on me and my time and make sure they are sorted into the appropriate non-anxiety-inducing buckets in which they rightly belong.
This poem is a commentary on that.

English

Cousin on a Wall

My friend Jon Daamen owns and operates a beautiful art, music and functions venue just outside of Napier in the Western Cape and is herself an artist specialising in works created with pressed flowers, leaves, and found items from nature.
This poem is inspired by one of her works.

Afrikaans

Trans Voël Oggend

I was pondering the sexual proclivity of a Piet-My-Vrou bird because, well, it seems to be confused with a name like “Piet” as its “Vrou”.
Unless it had some sort of procedure done that the MAGA crowd would rather not have anyone talk about…

English

Angle grinder on a Farm

I was trying my best to phonetically interpret the bird song I was hearing when suddenly the air was pierced with a violent scream!

English

Wildfire

Wildland fires in the Western Cape are terrifying. In the same way that a Tornado ripping through town is called a finger of God, so too fire goes where it chooses and it does not discriminate.

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