Bongani Zungu, Author at The Hyacinth Review

Hoerikwaggo’s footprints

Bongani Zungu — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000

And on these sacred rocks, these tales appear: Under the shadow’s sun, feet once pressed against these warm desert sands. Those who never tired in their tracks, told the oldest clicks from the Namaquas, along such easing banks of the Gariep. With willows, and shrubs pressing further on near acacia’s shade and kharree trees. That,…

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The dew of a single gingko leaf

Bongani Zungu — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000

The way forth faced within. In the rush of rolling currents In the quiet ease of colored grass and golden patterns paved. An instant more, the slightest tip touches one platinum leaf; peculiar. Twirls in twos, it twists; like the eyes of a curious child monitoring the boat drift and drift away to the belly…

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