Twist Street

Kelwyn Sole

Dusk leans on the dazzle of late afternoon

to reveal dust hazing over us all, thick enough to have the false allure of
gold. My shadow walks with me, sucked in by grey concrete then shown
to be a body revealed but reversed, over and over again.

Gobbets of light. Zombie faces, hanging above their shirts. Huge coffers
of steel and glass jabbed down into the earth.

Past a park with no children, past a parched fountain that slowly wrings
the neck of anorexic vines, I am looking for you, there in your flat
infused with fragrances of incense and perking coffee, past stairs that
coil up and a lift that stutters down.

I think perhaps I’ve lost my way.

Somewhere there still must be a sun. As a young man’s silhouette is
caught darkly on pane after pane as he runs.

From Land dreaming: prose poems
(University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006 forthcoming)

LitNet: 31 January 2006

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