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A DESCENT – AMY SHELVER

Artwork: Shampoo on Concrete Background (2009) | Konrad Geel | Digital photograph | Artist’s collection, San Francisco | Price on request
Artwork: Shampoo on Concrete Background (2009) | Konrad Geel | Digital Photograph | Artist’s Collection, San Francisco | Price on Request
A Descent

You could always undress me with your words.

With all this need for reassurance,
I cannot be so sure.

Your new verse stretches and contracts
(neither beside us anymore)

Takes what it wants,
discards what it needs no more.

With all this need for reassurance
I cannot be too sure.

Feet slip while the train clicks.

Takes the plunge.

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BLUE GOLD – AMY SHELVER

Artwork: Slumflower 3 (2016) | Pola Maneli | Adobe Photoshop and Pencil , 42cm x 42cm | Artist's collection, Port Elizabeth | R1 500.00
Artwork: Slumflower 3 (2016) | Pola Maneli | Adobe Photoshop and Pencil, 42cm x 42cm | Artist’s Collection, Port Elizabeth | R1 500.00
Blue Gold 1
Artwork: Blue Gold (2019) | Theresa Hardman | Ink on paper | Private collection, Port Elizabeth | Not for sale
Artwork: Blue Gold (2019) | Theresa Hardman | Ink on Paper | Private Collection, Port Elizabeth | Not for Sale
Blue Gold 2

fallow lands
idle hands –
the farmer entertains
the devil’s work
after questioning
his worth

two words run
incessant
marathons
in his mind:
“bone dry”

the cattle
huddle
herding away
from the
encroaching
drought

the acacia thorns
prick the static air
as the burg wind
lifts their cracking,
boughs forlorn

fire.
is.
imminent.

a long walk
on perforated heels
edges blur, slow-ly…

agony.
thirst.
fields.

stalks of corn, measly mielies,
throw their last
battered brown leaves
upwards
…in the hope of
photosynthesis

scorched earth.
resource policy.
at least wood offers easily
to braai polity
but, that is all…

water-logged
in the search for
blue gold.