Poems

Stone

We stand on our past

Trample it

Rarely look it in the face

Until it smothers us.

 

August 2017

 

Photo description: Four sculptures of heads carved from sandstone pillars, with trees in the background, branches stretched across a patch of cloudy blue sky. Three of the heads face each other, eyes closed, expressions serene, inclined towards a smaller stone head between them.

Photo: National Museum of Kenya Nairobi Botanic Gardens, June 2017

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