In this issue:

POETRY

The Vanishing Act of Brown Children, Lethokuhle Msimang 16 // Country I Am From, Lethokuhle Msimang 18 // Anthem of Valour, Sinenhlanhla Mlilowokunqoba Magcaba 19 // GOOD BROWN WOMXN, Meshalini Govender 20 // a few minutes ago, Kerry Hammerton 21 // Harare City, Sunshine City, Deborah Seddon 22 // Death is a Shapeshifter [with apologies to the birds], Sue Woodward 24 // Scraps: Bubi River 1960, Mozambique 1974, Veryan Haysom 25 // DRY MOUTH FLOWER BOY, Carl Olivier 27 // After Eybers Krog Hambidge & De Lange, Shane van der Hoven 28 // My collar sits like a traffic-fine in my neck, Shane van der Hoven 29 // the sea can’t be enslaved, Jenny Mitchell 30 // Pamplona, Robert Gainer 31 // 1936, Robert Gainer 32 // Silence, Warren Furst 33 // Ancient Landscape, Jeannie Wallace McKeown 34 // Rupture, Jeannie Wallace McKeown 35 // On My Thirteenth Appointment, Chisom Okafor 36 // Millennial neurosis, Kelle Howson 39 // Submission, Emily Buchanan 41 // Shell game, Erin Conway-Smith 42 // Ars Poetica or A Brief Understanding of Failure, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku 43 // On Living or A Brief Understanding of Desire, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku 44

PROSE

Dr. Third Opinion, Neo Molefe 46 // A Good Daughter’s Prayer, Robyn Perros 56 // Top Choice, David Chappell 57 // Moon Pool, Michael Boyd 67 // The Lovers, Esinako Ndabeni 77 // Voices of the Wind, Makhosi Sthembi 84
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