Blunt Trauma
The fury of death
As fast as a
Kingfisher's
Flight into an
unseen window.
Now lies dead,
below
Its transparency -
its unseen
veil, its gauntlet
for
The faithful and
the fool
Its gamut of
feathered folds
Its cold and
irreversible hold
Iridescence still
clings in
Sparks and shimmers
to the wings -
To fancy filled
flight -
The definitive bang
of flesh
Torn from this
reality's plain
Taunting me to
tears.
Gari
Joubert is an artist, performer, poet and writer, he was born in 1964 in
Mandini, a paper mill town on the Tugela River, in what was then Zululand,
South Africa. At age ten he moved with his mother and four siblings to Durban,
and at thirteen, went into a foster home, remaining there until he finished
high school. Following this, he was conscripted by the South
African Defence Force for two years and posted to their Counter-Intelligence
unit in Namibia. Joubert returned subsequently to Durban and spent the next
four years involved in the club and band scene, the counter-culture movement,
fringe politics, and writing. In the late 1980’s he immigrated to Europe and
later settled in London where he continued to write and play in bands. In 2005
he returned to South Africa and now lives on the Kwazulu-Natal coast. In 2015
his first novel, Uptown Saturday Night Downtown Sunday morning was published
and in 2016, an anthology of his poetry spanning near thirty years was
published under the title Book From The Black Box. Joubert is currently busy
with the sequel to Uptown... due out in 2019.
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