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Writer's pictureThe Red Wheelbarrow Poetry

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Jeannie McKeown


Here beside you

I learn your

secret language,

half-breath gasps,

silk of skin, your

flesh leaping

to my touch.


Featured at The Red Wheelbarrow Zoom launch of The Only Magic We Know: Selected Modjaji Poems 2004-2020 on 31 March 2022


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