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SONGS FOR SIGNARA A hand of light caressed my eyelids of darkness (p.3) Long, long you have help between your hands (p.4) A came with you (p.5) Roads of insomnia, roads at noon (p.6) Is it surprising my dear (p.8) I have spun a song (p.9) I was sitting on the prose of a bench one evening (p.10) My sister, these hands of night (p.11) And we shall be steeped my dear (p.12) Your face beauty of ancient times (p.13) You have stripped the rosy grace (p.14) To forget all the lies (p.15) Your name is not unknown to me (p.17) During the abyssal night in our mother (p.19) This head of nine is tired (p.20) What shall I say to the Confederate Prices (p.21) Was it a Mograbin night (p.22) Why should I leave (p.24) Relentlessly she drives me (p.26) A long journey my Dear! (p.27) But will the Lovers sing (p.29) Song of the Initiate (p.30) She flies she flies (p.34) Listen to the barking (p.35) ELEGIES Elegies of Midnight (p.39) Elegy of the Circumcised (p.42) Elegy of the Saudades (p;45) Elegy of the Waters (p.49) Elegy for Aynira Fall (p.52) GLOSSARY (p.59)

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Introduction (p.7) The Origin of Death (p.13) Dove and Jackal by FRANK BROWNLEE (p.14) The King of the Waters by A. C. JORDAN (p.19) The Unreasonable Child (p.29) Little Reed-Alone-in-the-Whirlpool by EUGENE N. MARAIS (p.32) Hanni’s Journal b ANTHONY DELIUS (p.36) Gokatweng and the Buffaloes (p.52) The Outspan by J. PERCY FITZPATRICK (p.54) The Woman’s Rose by OLIVE SCHREINER (p.70) The Schoolmaster by PAULINE SMITH (p.73) Outa Sem and Father Christmas by TOON VAN DEN HEEVER (p.80) The Rooinek by HERMMAN CHARLES BOSMAN (p.87) The Cloud Child by STEPHEN BLACK (p.100) Fuel of Fire by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS (p.103) When the Sardines Came by WILLIAM PLOMER (p.109) The Death of Masaba by R. R. R. DHLOMO (p.118) Lonesome by PETER ABRAHAMS (p.121) Sebolelo Comes Home by C. E. MOIKANGOA (p.126) Once in a Century by D. B. Z. NTULI (p.138) Out of the Fountain by DORIS LESSING (p.145) Ekaterina by JACK COPE (p.159) The Goat by INGRID JONKER (p.169) Soup for the Sick by HENNIE AUCAMP (p.178) Drought by JAN RABIE (p.181) Boy-Boy by CASEY MOTSISI (p.184) The Bench by RICHARD RIVE (p.187) Mrs Plum by ES’KIA MPHAHLELE (p.193) The Lovers by BESSIE HEAD (p.222) Exile by ROSE MOSS (p.236) My Cousin Comes to Jo’burg by MBULELO MZAMANE (p.251) Two Sisters by AHMED ESSOP (p.258) A Strange Romance by ACHMAT DANGOR (p.264) The Road to Migowi by KEN LIPENGA (p.275) The slow Sound of His Feet by DAMBUDZO MARECHERA (p.279) Sunlight in Trebizond Street by ALAN PATON (p.282) The Butcher Shop by SHEILA ROBERTS (p.289) At the Rendezvous of Victory by NADINE GORDIMER (p.297) Milk by ELSA JOUBERT (p.306) Space Invaders by PETER WILHELM (p.311) Notes on Contributors (p.319) Acknowledgements (p.328)