WITHERING UNDER THE AZALEAS
© Farouk Asvat
I wither under red azaleas
Yearning for your welcoming laughter
That echoes from the south,
Or even a touch
Of the harsh unyielding face
Of the khaki highveld.
Here, with the pink pride of India
Waving in the wind
And a million Indian mynahs
Dancing in the rain
Where the leather workers go about
Their stuporosed jobs,
I live a banished life
Stethoscoping alien bodies
I watch the azaleas wither
In the winter evening mist
Look at the distant white mandir
Against the avocado hill
The ominous black partridges
Looming like poverty on the green field.
© farouk asvat
composed: 1981 [pietermaritzburg, south africa under
apartheid]
[] acknowledgements:
Withering Under The
Azaleas was previously published
in:
The Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts publications, p84, 1982);
The Indicator (caxton, johannesburg,
p26, 27-31.05.1986);
Exiles Within (writers' forum,
cape town, p4, 1985);
A Celebration of
Flames (heller
fund, uc berkeley, usa, p18, 1988);
The Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p28, 2007);
The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);
The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback, p28, 2014).
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● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
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● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
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● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (literary criticism)
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