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By: George Bailey

"South Africa"

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Outbound now
Past moans of Guernica
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Ghosts
between meat museums
Lights
Duende
Vibrating guitar masses
Falling now
Transoceanic specks through
The Tropic of Capricorn
The Kalahari
We linger
Above the Great Karoo
at the bottom of the world
Bourne on air’s outrigger some
Constant changing locations
building
Strands of air over water
Some unknowable trajectory
Down to twin wild oceans contained
All around in wizard rocks red
With blood and dreams
Brooding all notions of green
On and on until
Forever we linger
In the joined worlds of a moments space
A harmony
Stitched together all around
(by love)
vegetation’s storm
Skeins and threads
webs
molowene threads
Cells too
The membrane stretched towards
trust
All patients (sometimes)
Moving toward adventures
All netted round
beyond
this fledgling reciprocity