Lionel Abrahams Biography

A dead tree full of live birds.
Why should I set this down?
On a young man's palm, a spiky clump
that could be a dried dog-turd
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Lion (two or three), zebra (scores) and other thirsty
at a water hole. How alive they are! How lovely
while healthy - even while hungry, even when frightened.
We were up there at Kruger to (you could say) ‘gape'
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for Lorenzo van Breda (b. 1999)

Child - you who have arrived in time and just in time
to knock for us at the tremendous door
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(ON A FORM)

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Emptiness
to the power of space-time
spirals in continuum round
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Body, a-tumble in torrent of time,
attempts every minute to report
its last-found secret to the soul.
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