Contemporary Sonics by Xitha Makgeta

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I’ve been drinking Mzwandile’s drawingsThese shades and lines eat my bowels to decayLoose anus can’t hold my shitNow I compose poems with faecesMy abstract heartA blank placard hangs on the wall, it's artAnd in the background malombo...

BURNING By Xitha Makgeta

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] 1.Her breast is what went wrongHer ass moves like she’s dancing to a songHer legs are longHer eyes cast a spellHips swing like a church bellIs she a boy?Is he a girl?The society is what went wrongThey...

It is blue in Harare by Xitha Makgeta

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Harare streets will suck out the breath in youWhat’s worth a dollar when you can’t breathe?I autopilot across sidewalksA traffic light with one eye robots itselfPolice come out of the blue wagging batons like tailsFlip the coin...

Poet Profile: Xitha Makgeta

Xitha Makgeta is a South African, Pretoria based writer, poet, performer and art activist whoalso experiments with paint and videography. In (2008) he independently published his first studio record (E.P) titled In Fragments, followed by another studio record (E.P) titled...

Ocean by Xitha Makgeta

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] "And the ocean found peace"After I drank all its waterthe ocean is in me.I'm home to shipwrecksI speak rolling wavesSlave ships capsized in my throatI grow a garden of bones in my gut I was once a...