Off the Wall poetry reading
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This was my first time performing or reading my poetry at Off the Wall, and it felt really good to be there, even though it was over Zoom (in a way it worked for me, though, given that I don’t actually live in Cape Town anymore).
I read poems from Milk Fever (Armaggeddon Summer, Nothing in the Water, Women with Houses for Heads, Birth Rite) and God is a Woman and She is Everywhere, Everywhere, which was published by 20.35 as well as some works in progress that I’ve never performed before.
“God’s faces multiply, at the coffee
shop She works two jobs for her meals
and sharpens her fists on
Tuesdays at boxing
and counsels every customer who cries, all
prophetic and promising new love, while
her eldest, only seven, sleeps in the kitchen,
eating grated cheese from an ice cream
container when he wakes.
”