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Lig bly lig in ’n donker tyd

Alviné Appollis-du Plessis


Die ketel fluit. Ek haal twee bekers uit: een vir my en een vir jou.

Ons kuier op die patio

en loer so af en toe

na die bonsaiboompie

langs die malvaplant

wat jaloers na my dahlias

op die stoepie kyk.


Ek wil so graag vir jou ’n gedig skryf,

sommer net uit dankbaarheid:


dankie, Lig, dat jy lig is en nie donker is

soos ek.


(published in This Recurrence of Light, Ecca, 2022)


Featured at The Red Wheelbarrow on 4 August 2022 as one of the Ecca poets

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