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To carry the accumulated joy of centuries

Walking thus within each other’s

Particular knowing and delight.

This is our grace: To be a note

In the exact chord that animates creation,

The dissolve of all the rivers

That are both place and moment,

An ocean of mind moving

Forward and back,

Outside of any motion

Contained within it.

This is particle and wave. How simple.

The merest conversation between us

Becoming the essential drone

Into which we gladly disappear.

A common music, a singular heavy tread,

Ceaselessly carving a path,

For the waters tumbling invisibly

Beneath.

I have always wanted to be with them, with you, so.

I have always wanted to be with them

With you,

So.

*Mandlovu is the word the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe use for female elephant.

It is connected in resonance with Mambo Kadze the name for the deity that is

both elephant, the Virgin Mary and the Great Mother.

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