And This is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

Author:Shingai Njeri Kagunda [Kagunda, Shingai Njeri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952086342
Publisher: Neon Hemlock Press

thabai cannot be forgotten, the stinging nettle,

Aha, and what about that colourful one?

Sitting like a purple flower?

Maitu had never seen it before, but there it lay and her eyes remained steady —focused—guided to what was being offered by the earth:

something to heal,

something to save.

The gift of myself, time.

It is not my turn to tell this part of the story…

Ma Nyasi

This one I will tell because time is not always reliable. Time will make you forget that some things hurt as deeply as they did, deed, dead. Time will turn that hurt into numbness and selective amnesia. Mimi, I’ve refused! It happened in the early 2000s, this thing that changed me irrevocably. “Time will heal,” they say, “time will tell.”

Ha! Does death not still hang in the air with me now?

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