Publisher: Deep South, South Africa
Beneath the bare trees
stripped to sky, and
smelling of dust, two old
hands hold, fold and refold
a thin sheet of earth.
‘Where is the wind? And
why is the wind never
a tree anymore?’ the hands ask,
folding. ‘The bare branches
of the bare trees no longer
hold anything. All falls
through the thin earth.
Why, even the sky,’ the hands
say, ‘has dropped all of
its clouds.’ Kobus
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About the author
Kobus Moolman is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape. He has published seven collections of poetry and two plays, and edited a collection of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities. He has won numerous local and international awards for his work, including, most recently, for his collection, A Book of Rooms, The Glenna Luschei Award for African Poetry. He was guest editor of the first special issue of Current Writing, a South African journal dedicated entirely to the teaching of creative writing. His first collection of short fiction, the swimming lesson, was published in 2017.