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The Garden Out of Dust. Askew with Disproportionate Lore
I stood there letting my breath out
Apr 23
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And afterwards we’ll tell each other all about it
You hear crimson in blue; you understand warmth through coldness and all of it comes in half-grey tones, in cold blue whispers that no one understands…
Jul 6
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Warmly Humans
The machine did it coldly, as if no human hand had hidden behind the order just merely placed, and these streets, these geraniums on a hand-tended…
Jul 4
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“If you forget that I exist, remember that I was.”
Nov 2, 2025
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“That Comes From Elsewhere and From Without"
Nov 9, 2025
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The Only Grand Thing We Can Possess Is Our Life
Aug 17, 2025
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There Is a Silence Where Hath Been No Sound; There Is a Silence Where No Sound May Be
Sep 28, 2025
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The Vendor and Other Doorways
Aug 11, 2025
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Listening to the Sea: The Unfinished Line of Lalla Mira
Oct 13, 2025
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A Thousand Lines for a Single Look: A Conversation with Dan Cherubala
In Burundi, you say “Agaceceka karavuga” — silence speaks.
Feb 15
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He has nothing — not even a T-shirt, but he still has hope: A Conversation with FLORENT MWARABU
I will begin with something that isn’t standard.
Feb 8
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An Informal Conversation with David Mugire
We See Things Differently
Jan 25
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An Intuitive Conversation with Sankara Mutoni on INZU at the Africa Museum
Artist Talk - Book Launch
Oct 7, 2025
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Conscious Refuge: A Conversation with JONATHAN BAKENGA
Jonathan Bakenga is a young artist, designer, engineer, activist, and creator from Goma who currently lives and works in Bujumbura, Burundi.
Jun 25, 2025
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TENDER LETTERS
A series of letters that later inspired my poetry book.
SHORT STORIES
Some of my short stories.
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Word Limit I Still Do Not Know
When I was what I thought was little— although now you sit SATs at this age,six or seven — I ran a field with my brother.(Yes, now show me those left…
Jun 21
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Ornate Cases of Our Precincts And Beings
They say gusto can evaporate… if kissed every day Chain, pointer-equipped case Who creates such covers of the sacred in our days?
Jun 16
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The Airing Lyrik Here and Forth
To everyone, to everyone
Jun 7
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Appointment and Disappointment. Dates and Timeless Offerings
Grand Central Station.
Mar 24
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Rarely Does a Rare Raven Reveal Itself
An epeolatrial later with a missing date
Mar 22
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Out of the Known and the Seen
“Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise: so say the oldest and the youngest serpents.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Mar 19
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