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I have 87 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 246492 times
and 113 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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My stories
The Termini Flower
An encounter at Rome station that has stuck with me.
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Memory of a Mamba
I saw a mamba, A black one,
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The Song of the Pick
The Song of the Pick is a painting by the South African painter, Gerard Sekoto. Great South Africans like him were kept from my textbooks at school (mostly in the eighties). I only discovered him recently. This poem is my take on his painting.
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A Moment with the Maid
The Transkei was a so-called homeland in Apartheid South Africa. Umtata (now Mthatha) was its capital. The berg winds are hot dry winds that blow strongly from the mountains of the interior to the coast.
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Energy
A poem about a dead dog's role in debunking a clever priest's stab at science
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