Sunflowers in Your Eyes Aberystwyth

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Sunflowers in Your Eyes: Four Zimbabwean poets. Join Ethel Irene Kwabato & Blessing Musarari on tour from Zimbabwe

Bookshop of Aberystwyth Arts Centre

“powerful reading and an opportunity to engage with Zimbabwe in a cultural and hopeful manner” Sara Maitland

An extract from Sunflowers in Your Eyes

Junior’s Morphine

Dear Sarah

While you queue
for mealie meal
and sugar, struggle
to get morphine
for your bed ridden son,
as you run away
from police brutality
and watch from afar
the burning hut
that was once home,
I stand vigil
after long hours
at the old people’s home
in Bristol,
while your husband cuddles
my bosom
dreaming away the hours
…and the nightmare
of missing the route 41
tram for a shift
at the mental hospital,
I read another sms
from you,
desperate—
this time
Junior’s morphine please,
no medicines in hospitals—
urgent.

I delete the message
before he wakes up,
to another shift which awaits him

and you wait,
for a reply that will never come,

Yours
Hagar.

(Ethel Irene Kwabato)

Time: 7:00pm