Irises
In the reflection
in your eye
There's a
stretch
Of golden sanded
beach.
And a book
...
Full of glittering
words
But just beyond
reach.
There's the call of
the wild
That breathes
life
Into wilting souls
But can't be bought
nor sold.
And there is
too;
The world, spinning
giddily
Around and
around
In the reflection
in your eye.
Gari Joubert
Gari
Joubert is an artist, performer, poet and writer, he was born in 1964 in
Mandini, a paper mill town on the Tugela River, in what was then Zululand,
South Africa. At age ten he moved with his mother and four siblings to Durban,
and at thirteen, went into a foster home, remaining there until he finished
high school. Following this, he was conscripted by the South
African Defence Force for two years and posted to their Counter-Intelligence
unit in Namibia. Joubert returned subsequently to Durban and spent the next
four years involved in the club and band scene, the counter-culture movement,
fringe politics, and writing. In the late 1980’s he immigrated to Europe and
later settled in London where he continued to write and play in bands. In 2005
he returned to South Africa and now lives on the Kwazulu-Natal coast. In 2015
his first novel, Uptown Saturday Night Downtown Sunday morning was published
and in 2016, an anthology of his poetry spanning near thirty years was
published under the title Book From The Black Box. Joubert is currently busy
with the sequel to Uptown... due out in 2019.
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Poetry