Gukira

• Leaving

  Posted: August 8, 2009, 9:04 am by keguro

  I am always leaving. Half-eaten avocados tan. Ibis cede hard-won ground to bully crows. Indecision rusts. It is too exposed. Red dust waits to erase untaken steps. We speak of full emptiness, hysterical pregnancies, camouflaged promises. In the morning, the baby snakes will be waiting. * Home has become difficult to feel. An acquired taste for jaded palates and [...]

• Perfect & Jood

  Posted: August 8, 2009, 9:01 am by keguro

  I return to learn that E. Lynn Harris has died. An outdated email message finally acquired from an account that was inaccessible from Nairobi. And so this return feels like other returns to other places, in which death notices serve as welcome mats. I have not read Harris’s novels in over ten years, and my [...]

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Fish cakes

Alas a fish cake.

Yet more fish cakes

Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

The end of the fish cakes