To have been wise once by Charika Swanepoel

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I have wept more than I have loved, and you know that I have loved severely. And now, I’m looking for mercy between the sympathies of flesh and its cruel hope. The sympathies of flesh and sweet,...

The thing about grief by Charika Swanepoel

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] The thing about grief is that it doesn’t matter how wide-open and endlessly it stretches out before you or how mute and dry and upright it sits in your mouth, or how beautiful and violent and like...