Author: Kuruga
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on walks.
A house under renovation two trees blooming outside on a grey, cold, silent afternoon in Spring. A leaf floating downstream, darkening as it descends the frigid waters then another leaf, then leaves, twirling in little whirlpools. At the curve of the path, river rushing behind you, rises a small hill, on which are sprinkled the…
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My English and Swahili Teacher
VoKe walked down the path. He’d walked it many times. In fact, he’d walked down it this morning. He’d walked up it again this afternoon. He was now down it again, with a large sack of books, and the afternoon sun keenly on his heels. Along the path is where VoKe first saw the hand…
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6.4.25 2311
I have come to a realization: that I fear writing now, while I used to enjoy it. I do not write as much nowadays, not even journaling (I habit I began diligently at sixteen and seemed to stop at twenty five; shy of a decade – perhaps I will return.) Now it feels like my…
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I love you, critter
the sky is you, the unceasing expanse of my love, of your significance in my life of the power of your smile of the weight of your sorrow on my heart on my heart when it occurs, of the elation of the spirit when you are around it’s akin to soaring without fear of falling…
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2032[13/01/2025]
YOU KNOW, I was thinking about that day we were sitting at a restaurant (I think it was restaurant), and I told you that it frustrates me how you jump to the negative; Oh, I remenber – It was that time at Johnny Pistolas. Recall? A painful, a sad-mile, a something memory, I don’t know;…
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maongozi
Sasa unataka nikwambie nini? Unakam kama maisha yamekukasirisha Unataka nikushow? Si ati sielewi, ama enyewe sielewi – juu enyewe kuna aina za uchungu hata kueleza ni ngumu – Lakini kama uko sure unataka niongee Mi nitakushow tu ukazane aisee na ujipe furaha na ukule maembe na usambaze kitu kidogo kama mtu amelemewa Juu hii maisha…
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Majira ya kupukutika, AdMo
Waone wale: mpenzi, na mwenza wake njiani, Miili sako kwa bako, mawazo hapa na pale, Ila swali la kuenzi, shaka haipenyi ndani. Ama yule ba’skelini, nywele zimepeperushwa, Basi ubavu kushoto, ya wanaotoka kazi, Nyuma kwa wingi majani, yavurugwa kwa hewa. Kwenye bustani wachanga, mikoba yao ya shule, Vitini wapumzikao, wengine na mbwa zao, Nasi tunatangatanga,…
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Rabaut Park
sunshine soft on skin. fixing the traffic light is a worker on a crane, white helmet, blue skies and the reaching spire of Iglesia Biblica Sublime Gracia. A couple push a stroller – stopping at light as hand reaches in, readjusting, rearranging, caressing. A man sits on a bench, another lies on another, belongings in…
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Chissà
We are all seeking to connect – ultimately. [in the burying of head on a partner’s chest in the inflicting of pain on self on others in the ways we live or try to or fail to in the locking of eyes brave, brown eyes breaking only to return in the shout of one’s own…
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how does it work?
when one is in the process of adapting to life – the purgatory of the outside in concert with the cranking of the inside as gears are shifting.