Valreep / Stirrup-cup | Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Elisabeth Eybers
Human & Rousseau
30 moving poems in Afrikaans and English by the doyenne of Afrikaans poetry, shortly before her 90th birthday.
To Bert
Now that you’re mute there’s nothing more
that I could still be hankering for
except the freedom to abstain,
like you, from uttering words again.