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Education as Change
On-line version ISSN 1947-9417
Print version ISSN 1682-3206
Educ. as change vol.24 n.1 Pretoria 2020
http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8798
POETRY
Brian Walter
I recall that I touched in kindness
his shoulder: and he winced
. . . and then he lifted up his shirt
to show sjambok cuts repeated
across his back, in red-blue welts
that patterned his brown skin
-university was never like this,
but then, I was classified as white.
My student was softly telling me
why his work was late:
they all ran, he said, and security
found him in the dark, and laid in.
"It happens," he shrugged, and flinched,
"but it's been difficult to write."