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Gabeba Baderoon
South Africa |
Beginning
I
turn a corner and see your face.
Our
lives spool out from that glance.
I
give up everything for this.
I
remember everything I've left behind.
You
pack your books on the shelves next to mine.
On
an envelope addressed to you I write a list of groceries.
You
speak to me of your former loves.
You
tell me I am your first love.
Before
we start the middle of our lives together,
before
we contemplate leaving each other,
ceding
the subtle map of the bed,
let
us linger on a beginning.
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| Gabeba
Baderoon:
Beginning
appears in the collection The
Dream
in the Next Body (www.gabeba.com)
by Gabeba
Baderoon (Kwela
Books/Snailpress, Cape Town, April 2005). Gabeba's poetry has
been published in journals in South Africa, Britain and the US, and the
anthology Ten Hallam Poets (Mews Press, 2005). She is the
recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry for
2005. More Gabeba Baderoon: kwela.com
fito.co.za |
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