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I write poetry from my personal space, in my personal voice. I say “I am here”. I address women in the world.

— Makhosazana Xaba

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These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts.

It is a summer of songs composed in blood,
tuned with guns and arranged in conversations.
It is a summer of songs I sing in swelling volumes.

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