Prayers to Dada

re-read anna karenina so––
what is it about?
trains, from the cape to
cairo. Dada
died you did so what?
no one dies
like a shoe––
dachau is your fist
who gave you that peaked cap?
that totalitarian
timbre? Hooded eyes as
red as the heart
of the nile where the corpse–– still seditious
bleeds for all your people, dada.
for school-children and fishers-of-men.
to see.

By: Tafara Gava

Tafara Gava is a Zimbabwean-born poet and novelist. He’s divided his life between the Black
Forest in Germany, Harare, and various cities in the U.S’s East-Coast. He is currently a
candidate for a MFA at the University Of Notre Dame.