"South Africa"

4
we meet
our mothers’ here too
all netted round
crows-feet head rags
all netted round
face maps from a first voyage
exhalations powers
this drive
all singing
water
sunset gifts
sunrise gifts all netted round
tempered in fire
modified Braais
stars
stored in wood
this union of word metal
beaten
folded in sharing
this unfolding at Babel
the memory of it too