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Swirl
by thokozani kana

Galactic Movements,
Plane impediments.
I well up,
I swell up,
I curve in.
New slope,
New hope.
-           Marked bees,
  You move in,
You move in,
I curve in,
I meet you in mid- air.
 
Swirl,
streaming light shire,
  Morning light, choir, door.
I approach, door, new slope, new hope I faint.
Traffic hell this spell Gondwanaland king and jiving stars.
My king,
  bow
there
  this I feel complete
Sense
Tense
  Cohesion
  sprite and lemonade pry.
  G is for chini look T is for looking madiba,
  Im not water
  Im three
Finish him.

 So you there.
How long
you describe the light,
we’ll burn in the eye for shame,
clean me and the dam ,
don’t call me
Ill answer to you.
You , not I
look.
Meet me across the lake
where fish drinks lust
number these plates,
it must return higher than slope
higher than cloud,
blue is the hand that sleeps. Brown is the face that keeps.
Torn is the sprout of joy flowing to kingdom come,
bear  baa
Milk, sip cow there is no way
Killing down I go down I go killing
Milk is sprout on your neck ,juice
What it is your blood?
Raise it,
socks,
mountain
and bellybutton.
You quench it
with love and
empty it
with more,
more more,
more,
greed.
Police and storm

. Jah
I want to see
where is the people,
Im going home
there is no place here,

She is a  gatekeeper
bury the son
In your pocket
raise both hands to song of the heart
and swim and shout to the storm its coming coming soon.
Have you heard such a thing it’s a mielie mill
from the coast of clown
and shear bright smile
from the left from the left. I knew it I knew where there is hope ,
home is love too
, shoes
and apricot jam
spinning  cars
and dairy swirls in jumping jacks
ice cream
before you heaven gaping
shoes
dairy and ice cream.

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