Tuesday, 31 May 2022
onbeskryflik
Sunday, 29 May 2022
i am a drop
water at my back
blue sky up above
i am a drop
contained in
the walls of my mind
crack me
i want to seep into
you
in the water reservoir, Stonehenge, Tankwa Karoo
Saturday, 28 May 2022
patterned and unpatterned
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
open
is a showcase of
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Poetry, why I love you!
minimalist exaggeration
credible contortions
succinct vastness
vicarious viscerality
Monday, 23 May 2022
hoekom praat / skryf ons in digkuns?
(in partikulêre orde):
1. om
te toor
2. om
ore en oë tot stilstand te bring
3.
om aandag op die ritmiese tong te vestig
4.
omdat ons ons taal geniet
5.
dit verenig teater en intimiteit
6. digterlike
sillabes op die tong is vergelykbaar aan sjokolade
7. aaaah,
dit is so ekonomies - meeste digkuns benodig slegs enkele asems om lewe te kry
en gee
Sunday, 22 May 2022
fluweel vlerke
teen die binne wande van my mond stryk
met net ‘n paar subtiele kontorsies van lippe en tong
skep ons wonder-sillabes wat bekoor, verlei, vermaak
die toortonnel van die mond
die magiese grot
die kolkgat waar die woorde geslyp word
tot perfekte koeëls van klank wat
vaartbelyn die oorwande kwes
Friday, 20 May 2022
our love be
our love be kelpforests in its breathing
our love be oysters in its gripping survival
our love be the wild springtide in its ecstasy
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
rocksolidbodem van die Liefde
skyn deur my hart soos sonlig wat
seebamboeswoude pyl -
hemels penetrerend
asemrowend bekorend
ek swem met verwonderende oë deur
seebamboes wat met soveel veerkragtigheid
die getye deurstaan en
Monday, 16 May 2022
ontdigtering
die binne-kurwes van my ribbes
my hand is te onkundig om die lyne te vertaal
ag, komaan harts-ink!
verf deurdringende siklone deur my are
laat dit in wondermerke op my vel uitslaan
sodat die hele wêreld my ontdigtering kan sien!
Sunday, 15 May 2022
Ritme van Drie
ek is hier
my pen drie keer op die blad
Saturday, 14 May 2022
praat nie in metafore
Friday, 13 May 2022
i wish my love for you to be an abundant bean harvest
die superheros van die digterlike hongersnood
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Tequila meditasie
Saturday, 7 May 2022
ek is uitgetiep oor die afgrond van jou verbeelding
maak elke gewrig in my sintaksis ontkoppel
ek is uitgetiep oor die afgrond van jou verbeelding - die ekstase!
die hart wil nie bedaar
ek staan kaler as kaal voor jou
en dis nie skaam en wegkyk
maar diep in jou onbegrensde oë inpyl
ek sien
jou
raak
en die sien
raak
jou
met ons siele bou ons metafore waaroor ons na mekaar se digte takke klim
jy is 'n gety wat deur my pols
en die slapende wildheid in my wakker maak
god dank vir aanraking
en
invloed!
my tong het reggemaak vir 'n forever stilte
en toe kom jy
en ons weet goed
aangeraakte organe staan
penorent
en skielik maak
oorlewing weer
sin
ek wil in alle naaktheid voor jou staan
niks anders sal sinmaak
Friday, 6 May 2022
ten fingers run roots
radiate with filigree ferocity over and
through the hundreds of strings
splinter the iron frame and explode the
sound in the forests of your hearts
rippling revelations reveal revelries through the arteries
of the resonating rotations of sounds
rebellious racy rollicking rollercoastering
in the palms of my restless hands
i hold rising cyclones of resurgent risorgimentos
i bow in reverence of the sound
the sound that heals me
the sound that breathes me
Thursday, 5 May 2022
her only wish
the boy
the rose
the ocean
the stone
the tree
the dance
the spine
the raindrop
the tongue
comes rising her eye
her only wish
to peer
the eternal
breathless
gaze
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
vanoggend het ek van jou gedroom
vir Kim
vanoggend het ek van jou gedroom
jou tong was so koel en tuimelend
soos ‘n waterval diep in my mond
liggaamsdele en tonge is bekend in my drome
maar ek kan nie onthou dat ek vantevore
gedroom het oor ‘n sensasie van temperatuur nie
die koelkoelerkoelste tong het jy teen myne gelê
- wat a verruklike siddering skiet deur my nek -
jou tong het so helder en kabbelend gevoel
soos die water van ‘n bergrivier
die sagte nat koelte van jou duikende tong
het die donker poorte van my wese
met sy groot skag lig oopgekalwe
nou loop ek die res van die dag met
hierdie droom-deurdrenkte keel
my oë wil net terugkeer na slaap
my lyf is warm en nat gesweet
my dye wil onder my insak
sedert die droom
is dit net my tong
wat koel en standvastig voel
***
i dreamt of you this morning
for Kim
i dreamt of you this morning
your tongue was so cool and cascading
like a waterfall deep into my mouth
bodyparts and tongues are familiar in my dreams
but i can not remember that I have ever dreamt
of the sensation of temperature before
the coolcoolercoolest tongue you laid against mine
- what a thrilling shiver shot down my neck -
your tongue felt so lucid and susurrating
like the water of a bright berg-river
the soft coolness of your diving tongue
carved open the dark corridors of my being
with its great shaft of light
the rest of the day i have been walking
with this dream-endrenched throat
my eyes want to return to sleep
my body is warm and sweaty
my thighs want to collapse
since the dream
it is only my tongue
that feels cool and grounded today
Friday, 29 April 2022
Ode to the Mango
i just ate the best specimen of you today
i can die a thrilled and exhilarated human being!
Oh Mango - delightful sister in the Anacardiceae family -
you are soil sun forest and nectar gloriously fused
there is no other fruit like you
you bring out proud and unashamed selfishness in me
i want to eat you all alone
you are made to be eaten in your exotic entirety
juicy and messy
even when i slice off your skin
i dig my teeth inside each peel
to run the very last sweetness of
your exquisiteness over my tongue
i can only be so patient and civilised
soon i throw the knife clatteringly into the basin
i grab hold of you with my two adoring hands
Oh Mango!
thrusting close closer and closest to your heart
i suck and pull at your clinging fibres
there is a leafiness
an earthiness
a primordial forestiness
that nestles in your flesh
i try to capsule your inimitable aroma with my tongue
i want to shackle you to my throat
you are sweet sun incarnate
oh drip down my throat forever and ever
let my uvula turn into the branch of a tree from
where you can hang your volcanic flavour and
lava over the voraciousness of my ravishing
Oh Mango!
you have gravitas
you have presence
you have boldness
you have splendiferous explosiveness
when i peel you it is like pulling the trigger from a grenade
but the explosion is not bloody and damaging
it is healing binding connecting
my every tissue into a wholeness of harmony
i do not dismay when your fibres cling between my teeth
i do not grab for the floss
i let the last signs of mango
turn my teeth into flying buttresses and
my tongue into singing spires
Oh Mango!
you make my mouth rise
like a grand cathedral from
your radiant revelations
Thursday, 21 April 2022
Friday, 8 April 2022
my ears stare
into
the distance
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
my poem is a white-flanked springbok
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
vat
Monday, 4 April 2022
hiding
i lift every tankwa stone
looking under each of them
somewhere my writer's confidence
must be hiding
Sunday, 3 April 2022
the silence
the silence
echoes
through
the hollows of
my skin
the silence
cradles
my ears
into
yawning
oblivion
the silence is so thick
when i stick my tongue out
i trip over myself
April 2022, Tankwa Karoo
Saturday, 2 April 2022
the sun
Friday, 1 April 2022
float
Monday, 21 March 2022
drup
die digkuns soos die
drup drup drup