BY NIKOLAI TJONGARERO
She’s like a grain from the sands of time, with her subliminal gaze which constantly sends all your wits and tactics into frantic mazes of delusion from the onset, and for the duration of this wilful derailment; wilful for the possibility that she could be the ally u’ve been seeking, and better still [...]
Lust-Filled Travesty
This is Our Love
You wouldn’t notice her deep green eyes unless she’s staring straight into your own. She looks directly into mine, and she sees the colour where my deepest pain melts into my greatest wish. I’m captivated by the delicate power of her presence, my heart beating out a rhythm of fascination.
She [...]
The Truth About the Lies
BY NIKOLAI TJONGARERO
Lyrical users of speech. We abuse the language utilised with the goal of making their fantasies about what they most seem to need without the need to first achieve. Change moods we do indeed, because the escape we provide is a portal to a lost place in time that moves [...]
What Love?
BY GENEVIEVE VIEIRA
What love is love if overcome?
He promised an undying love
but pardons turned num.
Glory, glory loveless mercies
For now he lays in the arms of another.
What love is love which has no name?
I’ve sacrificed my heartships
but lovers shamed to claim.
Glory, glory desired covers
For now he lays in the arms of another.
What love is love if [...]
What it Means to Look White?
Poem by Premilla Murcott
What it means to look white?
Can’t help but think about it…
State of mind, random concept,
or just a lot of bullshit?
Some try to wrap me in a tiny box,
with a ribbon and a bow
Who I am, what’s on my mind -
they don’t really wanna know
What it means to be [...]
Havana Nights
Photographs by SARAH LAURENCE
The moment never lasts: a poem
BY ANDREA JOSEPH
The moment never lasts.
Sometimes
For a moment
She feels alone
-the good kind-
For a moment she can be.
Just sit. Smile. Sigh.
For a moment she is relieved
But the thoughts always rush into it
Tearing through the peace
Wishing she trusted them from the start
Dreaming that her dancing days [...]
Four faces
Photographs by KELLY BERROLD
Kelly Berold is a media student at UCT.
Touch me on my studio!
A poster by JUANEL VAN DER WALT
