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The Chosen Family from Church to Earth
Guess at
the intensity behind my words. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes,
‘and I will move the world.’ After all that is said...
The Secret Orchard
She wants
diamonds, to live in a mansion (she thinks that’s the perfect life), to be the
hostess of parties, to run her pale king’s life....
Beauty awakens
There is my
reflection in the window. She dances. She dances. She dances. Look at me,
Master. I am wearing my dancing shoes. I am dancing....
Psychic, empath or psychosis
Rita is a
woman who has had visions from childhood. At night she always left her bedroom
door ajar, slept with the light on, with the...
The Reward of Having a Revolutionary Spirit
I’ve made
mistakes. More than a few. I haven’t always apologised for my behaviour, for
the mistakes I made, the wrong journey I took, the path...
Sola Osofisan’s masterpiece ‘Blood Will Call’: A bowl of green apples, and a book review
"And as imagination
bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes
and gives to airy nothing; a local habitation and...
Stanley Kubrick visionary-filmmaker and the journals of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Losing pieces of your identity already in childhood.
At the end of every pilgrimage in my childhood, there was a line that
was always a painful...
The imagined journal entries of Sylvia Plath nearing the end of her life
The page frees me in a sense, in a way I can’t describe. I write and
that’s my life. I am a mother and a...
A lesson in Naomi Wolf’s promiscuities and an open space where poetry matters
Shut the door. Shut out the quiet light. Tell yourself to swim away from
the tigers with arms pillars of smoke. One day I will...
The way out of apartheid South Africa
Miss Gilbey taught Speech and Drama. Every Friday afternoon as the car
speeded down the highway en route to her studio cum house I would...