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Off the Wall poetry reading

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Off the Wall poetry reading 
I read some new and old poems at Off the Wall Poetry tonight (21 June). This was my first time performing or reading my poetry at Off the Wall, and it felt really good to be there, even though it was over Zoom (in a way it worked for me, though, given that I don’t actually live in Cape Town anymore).
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New poem! 'God is a mother and she is everywhere, everywhere'

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New poem! 'God is a mother and she is everywhere, everywhere'

How did Jonah survive the belly of the whale? Was my grandmother a secret priestess? Is God really a masculine energy - He seems more like a Mother, a She, to me.

I dedicate my poem to Fidelina Sandoval, my Honduran friend, fellow feminist, mother and magic maker. For all those afternoons we spent drinking coffee and cooking beans and eggs and grinding corn to make flour and surviving our kids and drinking wine, after.

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