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against an unforgiving white wall
in a tilt invariably so the only yesterday here there be no silence
the rush of shoulders breaths quick is River riveting in its name here my feet know no surface
checks on curling irons calling from itself towards those who here I forget the colour green
leaves it invariably so know in a tilt invariably so
a print subject to forget and those who will against hallwaywhite
a time passed before the passing of rumbling in the bowels of throats we move towards end
trees the rage of watery blue we move towards beginning
invariably so Gamtoos every summer we are baptised anew
although skree jy in a sacrament of blue
all things unequal Gamtoos the only rite of renewal
trees irrelevant for their slow scraping of earth the staphorsts of 18 sutherland street
movements pulling of sky go through
grass growing in absent tomorrows Gamtoos
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