Ngwatilo

i think this works better: title subject to change [Untitled] I met a man today who speaks like you- I want to tell you (can’t find your grave, won’t go) there is nothing warm/ he means mourning does not end (mourning cannot end) he’s speaking now. I’m behaving badly writing you while he’s exposed, waiting [...]

Poetry Workshop 01 – Craft in Writing and Performance The poet’s first relationship is with the page; it is where the idea that birthed the poem is worked out, each word chosen and each line crafted. The page is the first performance space. Each move must be tight and flow with the next as in [...]

Met a man today who speaks like you I want to tell you can’t find your grave still I won’t go there is nothing he means that mourning does not end mourning cannot end His voice is speaking now I’m behaving badly writing you while he’s exposed watching for my response to him I cannot [...]

Teacups Eleven years old and accustomed to seeing the Jacaranda trees carpet the hill-side with their lavender flowers, loving them even when they wilted and returned to dirt; I still hoped Dad would put colored lights on the twenty foot cypress tree outside at Christmas, utterly disregarding its browning diseased needles and his fragility, to [...]

Kenya: Mother Tongue And Cultural Identity The East African Standard (Nairobi) http://www.eastandard.net/ OPINION February 24, 2007 Posted to the web February 26, 2007 Egara Kabaji Nairobi The World Mother Tongue Day was marked on last week on Wednesday, February 21. Unfortunately, there was no significant event organised to mark the day in Kenya. The newspapers, [...]