Ilse van Staden is a writer, artist, and veterinarian. Though most of her published work (poetry, short stories, and a novel) is in her home language, Afrikaans, she has now also published two novels in English.
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oh, that fish could swim through my garden again!
Stately as whale sharks, speckled pacifists,
or goldfish freed from small glass domes
like…