Tuesday. I drive to work past the same lake each day. there and back. there and back. today, it ripples in my direction.

On the altar, I will place letters of love and graciousness./ I will put flowers for your namesake./ I will place the water we are made of.

I carry that heat within me. It exudes/ like an aura, angry red and lovey/ pink. Does it matter/ that I stole it?

Having shoulders to land on/ And arms to hold onto/ I’m from somewhere I’ll always come back to.

Think back to how space and time have always shared the same root word in isiZulu/ But again, what does a Zulu girl know about space?

Today I would tell you that the world is on fire, as in, I am burning. And I thought of you.

I pray for peace on Earth and peace within/ The ocean accepts

When I’m nervous, I pluck the ingrown/ hairs on my belly one by one. Leaving/ little burials behind.

it burns my tongue/ it’s fire down my throat/ my ancestors ignite themselves

As women, we are the/ stories that men refuse to/ recite, refuse to/ read to their babies at/ night, refuse to/ look dead in the eye.

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