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MOZA IS OUR COUNTRY :Brave Voices Poetry Journal 64.

Proud to be a guest voice and have one of my poems in this journal of resistance from Africa. Scroll through the journal and read the poems on your way to Return from Pompei (one of the poems in my forthcoming collection, Nothing Remembers).

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MOZA IS OUR COUNTRY :  2019 arrived with omens of bad luck of death, hunger and disease. Maybe Gods are angry or bad devils are at it again. The wings of Cyclone Idai, Satan’s angel washed away the soul, breath and glint of Moza. Moza twice died and was raised by our Gods of resilience. Today we are warming the heart of Moza with metaphors of hope and we also mourn the loss of those buried in unmarked cemeteries of IDAI and KENNETH. We write these messages to massage the bruised confidence of Moza and with the hope that Moza will rise again from cinders of despair. We are African griots grieving with you Comrade Moza in this moment of forced silence and we shall dance alongside at sun rise. We say to the people of Mozambique Together We Rise. To those souls and spirits wiped away by the devils…

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