Memoir Of A Renaissance And The Powers Of Silence In A Letter
Everything is so environmental these days in my life. I am cold even if it is summer outside. It's summer now. I have been...
The Poet, Young Galaxies Beyond The Baobab And My Parents Love Story That Involved A Lost White Glove
What does it feel like to be a wife, to have a spouse, to live in a large, spacious house, to have that sedan...
Overthinking: When I Am Not Writing I think Of South End, Gqeberha
I went to the people closest to me. My mother's response was, "ask your father." As it is, as it was, always, so, I...
StoryTime: The Aspirant Novelist, the Gqeberha Filmmaker And The History Of Light In November
I water my plants when I come home. Snip off a dead leaf. My mother heard the key in the door. She calls out...
The Essayist, Genocide In Africa And My Chemical Imbalance Is The Reason I Am Sad
Hiroshima is now gilded in history. These are lines for poetry, illness. It’s become an anthem for the wreck that I have become, my...
The Artist Unleashed: Psychosis, Denial, Mental Illness and Emotional Support For The Poet
Connecting the dots
The case study Miriam Gelhor did not understand how to use the word bathos in a sentence. Did that make her stupid...
Front Doors That Have Let Poetry Into My Life
The house smelled like sugar biscuits, fried onions, and cabbage bredie. To me, it was a rare and comforting smell. There was something almost...
Blame It On Apartheid: The Middle Class, Relational Hunger And The Modern Family Dynamic
Lennox
Lennox is down on his luck. In his late thirties he sports a beard. He looks older than he really is, has dreadlocks and...
The Novelist’s Burning Sincerity To Bring Words To Life
Here there are no ducks in the park in their own world of silence marking time with their song. I am utterly alone. I...
To the Lighthouse: The Bipolar Experience in Female Writing
The trend in today’s society is that the phenomena of silence, shame, stigma, ignorance still exists around the burning, global issues of mental health...