In this issue:

POETRY

Suitcases, Sisanda Kubeka 16 // Silence in Church, Zizipho Bam 18 // Koeksisters, Jerome Coetzee 20 // A cargo lounge heroine, Stephanie Sears 22 // You’re so cool, Anna Idelevich 24 // The Murder, Fatma Ibrahim 25 // Welkom, Kevin Goddard 26 // antjie krog as ‘n uitmergelende strofe, Johann Van der Walt 28 // Hintsa’s Portrait, Sithembele Xhegwana 29 // winter solstice, Marcelle Olivier 30 // sunday., Tshegofatjo Makhafola 31 // Stewels, Dion Loubser 32 // The Green Grass, Musawenkosi Nyembe 33 // ʼn Bitter en blinde tyd, Charika Swanepoel 34 // Time Longer Than Rope, Peter Dreyer 35 // die hulp, Sheldan Dolf 37 // The Hunt, Trevor Conway 38 // Rain in September, Bibhu Padhi 39 // Seagull in Stellenbosch, Paul Kammies 40 // Into Town, Stuart Payne 41 // The Flaming Sun, Bibhu Padhi 42 // The museum of you, Joanne Hichens 44 // last hike, Marcelle Olivier 45

PROSE

You Go, But the Light Stays with Me, RM Franz 51 // Bhalagwe Camp, Bongani Sibanda 56 // Skin of the River, Melissa Webster 66 // Naledi, Sikelela Ndabambi 75

ARTWORK

Neil Badenhorst symphonia IX (my wait is u) 14 //  Close friends stories pt 1 47 // Interwoven Stories 48-49 // my internal narratives are at war with one another 87