Metal on dust by Nkateko Masinga

Nkateko Masinga | March 27th, 2020 | poetry | No Comments

Poet Bio

to laugh in the face of imminent death,
i wear silver to disguise that i am dust
waiting to be put back into the ground

my mother, from whom i was dug out
three decades ago, thrashing in protest
just as any person losing a limb would

Nkateko Masinga is a South African poet and 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018 and her work has received support from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg and the Swiss Arts Council. Nkateko is an interviewer at Africa In Dialogue, an online interview magazine that archives creative and critical insights with Africa’s leading storytellers, as well as the founder and managing director of NSUKU Publishing Consultancy. She is the author of a digital chapbook titled THE HEART IS A CAGED ANIMAL, published by Praxis Magazine. Her latest work has been selected by the African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Akashic Books, for the 2020 New Generation African Poets chapbook box set.

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