Vonani Bila (South Africa) is a poet, founding editor of the poetry journal Timbila, publisher of Timbila Books, curator of the Vhembe International Poetry festival, and founder of Timbila Writers’ Village and lecturer in English at the University of Limpopo. His poetry books include Handsome Jita and Bilakhulu! Longer Poems.
Illustration by katyau / Stock.adobe.comthe dance
you dancers with painted faces—
bury your heads in shame,
silence those roaring bongo drums
around the blazing fires of burning incense,
remove leo…
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