Maseru by night
When time has come, and I’m alive still, after toil
has dripped the glycerine of my black face,
pocket-happy now with pay on this week’s last day,
braai-vleis fires giving incense, I wonder
what to do with thoughts that bloom in me
from love’s innocence. At night, when I walk
down Kingsway lined with men smelling of soap,
the same blood that [...]