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Article: Some Day in a City as Hectic and Crowded as Harare.(POETRY)(Poem)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Some Day in a City as Hectic and Crowded as Harare
In memoriam Dambudzo Marechera
Some day in a city as hectic and crowded as Harare
(Where amnesia rides the air like a cold breeze)
Which I have on occasion
Adulated with an effusiveness
As capricious as pressurized champagne violently let go
Someone will suddenly wake up to see a shadow
Lacing the moonlight reciting Soyinka or Lorca
Under the purpling jacarandas of Africa Unity Square
Or the pointed lilies of Harare Gardens
Suddenly stirring or shrieking in terror like uprooted mandrakes
Seeing a presence, a shadow at once human and ghostly
Struggling to assume palpable shape to ...
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