I'm really bad at commenting on people's work, especially my own. I write from the
heart, not the head, and the moment I start to analyze something, I break it down into
such small pieces that it disappears completely, never to be seen again. Writing is easy,
as I told someone recently. You just slit your wrists and wait for the blood to pour out
over the keyboards. But saying why something was written, far harder. If I knew
why I wrote something, I probably wouldn't be able to write.
Dreams
Thandi Brewer
[thandib@global.co.za]
We are all vulnerable
in the night
Children especially
Her hand closed tight
around tomorrow
My daughter stirs
and smiles in her sleep
What does she see?
My dreams are not her's
I live with wolves
flooding into the mind
across the wastes
Scavengers and hunters
fullthroated
snapping at the heels of thought
Wolves
that live partly in this world
partly in the world of dreams
Things that wait out in the dark
for little girls who don't
return home
© 1999 Thandi Brewer, all rights reserved
appears here by permission
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