Charles Mungoshi Biography

For one whole week
it rained without a
break.
...

Intense blue morning
promising early heat
and later in the afternoon,
heavy rain.
...

Dotito is our brother
He is strange
He will not play with us on the streets.
...

The torrid silence of the October sun.
Miles upon miles and miles of burnt-out plains.


Suddenly you realise
you are talking loudly to your
shadow.
...

You, talking to my mother
and sisters in the house.
Outside, my father and I
...