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Publication © Modjaji Books 2017
Text © Karin Schimke 2017
First published in 2017 by Modjaji Books
modjajibooks.co.za
ISBN print: 978-1-928215-26-4
e-book: 978-1-928215-56-1
Book and cover design: Megan Ross
Cover artwork: Tammy Griffin
Author photograph: Paul Reeves
Set in Crimson Text 11 pt
Contents
Myopia
The workshop
The immigrant
The immigrant’s collections
The Shasta daisy’s native range
The garden
Hybrids
The existence of home
Learning to swim
Praxis – four steps to understanding change
i. the wheels are coming off
ii. not co-opted
iii. a shortish summary of revolution
iv. ferocious
Taped beak – seven songs of self-censorship
The things they do not tell you
Afer
Weed
Rock fig
Smoking
Superstition
Do you remember that time when so many people we knew were dying?
Cleaning the wound
Have you ever seen a maggot move?
First flush
January swim
Spring outing
What wedding is this?
How the architect lives
Rain
Truffler
Bright star
Shunt
Pathfinders
Then why
Native
When I finally get to Bhutan
The first time we went for a walk
my lips blister, my tongue dries.
atonal winds, weather all wall-eyed.
Myopia
My father had a monocle
for the myriad mysteries
he could fix and unpick.
Sometimes I would lie
on