Ants Moving the House Millimetres

by Botha, Nadine

• ISBN13: 9780958491518
• ISBN10: 0958491518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Deep South

Summary

Nadine Botha is a poet who works in forms entirely her own. Her poems have been published in poetry journals such as New Coin and Botsotso. Ants Moving the House Millimetres is her latest work.

Table of Contents

Keep left	p. 9
The bus prick and his doos	p. 10
Unpoetic things	p. 11
Two-eyed because one is closed	p. 12
Sleep simply alone	p. 13
The beating hump of witless arousal	p. 15
Worker hives	p. 16
Sleeveless goosepimples	p. 16
Missing letter	p. 17
Spill	p. 18
Runners	p. 18
This is not my style	p. 19
This twisted feeling of almost angst	p. 22
I don't see them in my eyes really	p. 22
While	p. 23
Goodnight to my sandwich	p. 23
I'm not there to visualise	p. 24
Still	p. 25
I live in the capital	p. 26
When I think binary and do the opposite	p. 27
Remembering something I lost when I wrote this	p. 29
The next level of pornography is taking the photo so you're looking at your own body	p. 31
Sexless	p. 32
Hoarfrost skull fluff	p. 33
We go to bed every night with it	p. 35
What we talk about when we talk about love	p. 36
Sex is with another person, everything else is spellbondage	p. 37
We shouldn't create ourselves	p. 39
I am young in love and full of scruples	p. 40
I also think of the pleasure of merely being used	p. 41
Cry Kerouac companion	p. 43
Next time	p. 44
I asked myself	p. 45
Others' stories are anecdotal	p. 46
The governed	p. 49
The mistress of the mistress	p. 50
Every moment dies	p. 51
Take care of the killer be's	p. 52
The what of the them and theirs	p. 53
For getting	p. 54
Blame it on a playboy bunny	p. 57
Leaves fall in the water	p. 58
Where you from?	p. 59
The sun needs attention	p. 60
I'm having sex while everyone is dying	p. 61
Dream	p. 61
Love poem	p. 62
I lie myself	p. 63
Knowing nothing while doing it	p. 64
Crazy about the boots, puss	p. 66
I rub my nose, backhand	p. 68
While you wait	p. 68
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