To my sister, and the Visual Art she still manages to set free.
burnt red lonely sky
where butterfly dreams
fly
belief in the shade
of memories
sometime tomorrow
slow wind drift
sorrow
blood upon the stage
hard steel string blues
late night dancing
chancing her name
across where silence
precedes
sand across a wooden floor
seeds afloat
you dance
alone
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
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