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      December 4, 2019I Fell in Love with an Historian OnceCharika Swanepoel

      I fell in love with an historian once.
      It made sense on paper.
      But we all know what history does to paper.
      High as a kite on all kinds of solitude,
      I once fell in love with an historian.
      I was looking for a way back.
      He asked me once,
      only half in love:
      “A way back from?”

      from #65 - Fall 2019

      Charika Swanepoel

      “I am a South African poet and literary scholar currently finalizing my MA in English poetry at the North-West University. I write poetry because I strongly believe that anyone with the creative need cannot afford not to write. I believe the creative word is not only a way of expressing your own personhood, but that it also provides us with an organic means of communication. I sometimes write as a way of talking to myself, to my people, to the universe.”