Chiwoniso Maraire By Bart Wolffe LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING OF A DEATH- For Chiwoniso Maraire The mist is getting closer. I’ve lost sight of the edges now, I think I can see yesterday. Its traces like the looks of eyes I should remember And though they may still be watching I cannot piece so many ghosts Who whisper in the hands of strangers Whom they borrow when they visit To tell me they are still listening To my last breath But the wind catches in the throat; Part melody, old songs, As incomplete as dust and fragments From a book that I was writing Somewhere when I dreamt last night Between love’s torn-out missing pages http://bartwolffe.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/lines-written-on-hearing-of-a-death-for-chiwoniso-maraire/  

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