Her

How Can you ask whether I care
Don’t you know with her dancing in my middle
My fetishes deserted me
And her rhythm leads me heartwards
To this moment

How can you ask whether I care
Don’t you know that, for her, my madness
Has created a sacred presence
in my memory
were my peace shall live

2010

Afrique

Have our roots have bent your back
through the dusty dunes and humid leaves
We carry you around on our skins
No matter how long we left
The drums have stored in our blood
your language, in an old silence


2010

4am

We cannot be afraid said he
But I am just a chicken
Running for my cave
From 3am’s guilt
I have been trying to stave
I looked into myself trying to be brave
He said, before you head for your grave
It would be wise to study
How what haunts you behaves



2010

how it may seem

Of how it might seem
That stillness hides a terror
So that you lock down
Flee from the quiet
forget the sky
But
today in the gutter, water reflected
A waiting sun
with its rainbow rings

2010