Author: Makewana

Metathesis

This is when syllables in a word, or words in a sentence, are deliberately re-arranged. It may be because the writer wants to create a comic effect, or because the sentence develops a particular rhythm that the writer is looking...

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Sovereignty

by Asante Lucy Mtenje   Yes, your eyes will bulge and even pop out of their socket, when what’s left of my tongue darts out those words, those words that should have pinned you to the wall, to the ground, before you pinned...

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Saturday’s Streets

by Asante Lucy Mtenje   The thirsty kisses of red, black, green, silver, yellow bumpers, lined and scattered across the parched earth like patches of a worn out quilt.  

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