THEMED SECTION 2
POETRY

 

Poems about Us

 

 

Kirsten Deane

University of the Western Cape, South Africa. kirstendeane14@gmail.com

 

 

There are poems about the colour of our skin,

about the sun that sets

on us a little longer

than everybody else.

They talk about the dirt that crept into our pores,

making us a little

darker but growing

oak trees and lemons.

I'm writing poems about our flesh and its different

shades of nature,

our ladybugs and

spiders and beetles

that crawl with us,

fearlessly through

the poems that

thought they defined us.

We've got a hold of the pen and the poem

no longer traps us

but holds our hands

on our way back

to ourselves.