Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20181 min readHow to: Hide the BodiesBurning flesh, crying babies, dead fathers, and missing sisters. Videotapes, and videophones, and media outlets, and and gun laws, and...
Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20181 min readIn the Poplar TreesI’ve seamed the flesh of my daughter with ancestors’ cotton. Through her will be the rebirth of grandmother. And of her mother,...
Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20181 min readBleak LoveIn times of joy I look for her face in the crowd yet I see only bleak visions of woman surrounded by a world of unwanted infatuation and...
Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20181 min readSeasonal ThoughtsI remember meeting you in the fall. Time seemed to pass a little slower when we’d hold hands And when we’d talk it’d be hard to stop or...
Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20181 min readInhabitanceThe prickly goosebumps tethered to the surface of my skin foreshadowed misery long before we could. And now death seemed to be the only...
Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20182 min readAnd if I Could Swim like a FishI don't think I want to be like my parents anymore. I mean, I’ve went through my entire life just sort of mocking their existence,...
Zanele ChisholmDec 19, 20181 min readSky Woman There was a Black woman in the sky. I found her tumbling across the horizon, soul split into two dimensions, head first into the sun. The...