writer, academic, literary critic
With every mistake
I erase myself
Only to find you there
Beneath my alphabet tongue
from Ambiguous Subjects
“Writing is a blind seeing. It leads to the elsewhere, to the space of non-coincidence.”
In a voice that is lyrical and unique, she writes about the marginalised and the dispossessed, about those who are struggling to make their way in the world, to forge connections across difference, or simply to witness the extraordinary within the everyday.
it was an accidental
collision –
the sun struck the windscreen
and I, caught in the moment
where my language failed
to read your presence
my fingers slipped from the page
marking you in braille
from Ambiguous Subjects