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pantoum for the parting by Nkateko Masinga

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Every Writer

Nkateko Masinga is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of three poetry collections: ‘The Sin In My Blackness’ (2015). ‘A War Within The Blood’

Gizelle behind the counter
Gleaming black as oil, as night

U.S. 1 drips into the into the Atlantic
where the sun sets and tourists applaud;