Isele Magazine republishes my essay, 'I Don't Know Where We're Going But I'll Know it When We Get There'
An excerpt:
Gaston Bachelard said that we should “trust poets” and I take this to mean that in times of global distress, we should listen to the ones who are always listening. I am not always listening but I am often borrowing, so today, I borrow small notes from the internet. These are Instagram captions I weave into snapshots from my busy-busy home during South Africa’s lockdown. It isn’t poetry, but it is my way of taking the wheel when you’re too tired for this leg of the journey. If I can’t do that, at the very least I can entertain the kids. Are we there yet?
The essay, ‘I Don’t Know Where We’re Going But I Think We’ll Know it When We Get There’ was first published by Praxis Magazine in Through the Eye of a Needle: Art in the Time of Coronavirus Volume II, edited by Darlington Chibueze Anuonye. I’m so grateful to Ukamaka Olisakwe for publishing it again in Isele Literary Magazine.