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"Do not ask me what I good poem is, I only know one when I see or smell it, hear it coming, or sense it scrambling off the stage or page".

— Tjawangwa Dema

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More quotes by Tjawangwa Dema

"This process of refining is everything is the goal is to write a good (read necessary, urgent) poem".

"I remember seeing the sky as it scrunched its face, filling its cheeks with smoke hurling rage at every mans' door".

"Here is a line between mana and man
and nature
man-made
as all false boundaries are".

"My clay begins elesewhere where Okavango pours into Boteti & re appears here to watch this other water from a distance".

"When my chapbook, Mandible, got published I don't believe I thought about curation very much".

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