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The Art of Leaving

The Art of Leaving

The Art of Leaving

The warmth is leaving
your shirt, hanging
over the back of the chair. Slowly
it is giving back everything
it had of yours.

© 2003, Gabeba Baderoon
From: The Best of MA Writing, 2002-2003
Publisher: Sheffield,

Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon

(South Africa, 1969)

Gabeba Baderoon (Cape Town, 1969) is an internationally published poet. Her work has appeared in New Contrast, Carapace, Illuminations, Feminist Studies and Matter. Baderoon won the Daimler-Chrysler 2004 Poetry Prize, worth R30 000. Her debut collection is expected from Kwela Books, South Africa in 2005.

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The Art of Leaving

The warmth is leaving
your shirt, hanging
over the back of the chair. Slowly
it is giving back everything
it had of yours.

From: The Best of MA Writing, 2002-2003

The Art of Leaving

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