Lebo Mashile
South Africa
Lebo Mashile
The inescapable intimacy of the poem takes you into the depths of this crippling social issue. She increases the volume of the heartbreaks and earth-shuttering pain suffered by so many. Startling poem
BIOGRAPHY
The poet, performer, actress, presenter and producer Lebogang Mashile, the daughter of exiled South... More >
HIV test number six
I can no longer keep count of the women you put inside of me
They are white noise on a black screen
Familiar tastes on a foreign tongue
Unknown memories resting firmly in the lap of my brain
Sometimes I am them
I wonder if they suddenly dream of elephants
Laugh in colour
And carry rivers in their hearts
Remembering when the whole world changed colour
And they did not know you anymore
