Careless Seamstress

Tjawangwa Dema is a poet from Botswana, an arts administrator, and a teaching artist in Bristol, England. Her chapbook, Mandible, was published in the box set Seven New Generation African Poets, and her poems have appeared in the New Orleans Review, the Cordite Review, and the Rio Grande Review.

Foreword, by Kwame Dawes    
Acknowledgments    

The Elegy of the Half-Done Quilt    
Apoptosis    
Red    
Geography    
Atropos    
Taxonomy    
The Borderlands    
Ventriloquist    
Ellen West    
Mothering    
Vesta    
Nostalgia    
The Careless Seamstress    
The Three-Body Problem    
Lent    
Not No Body    
Women Like You    
Dreams    
Ovaria    
Before the Wedding    
Lethe    
Mutineer    
You Who Have Forgotten    
Just Because    
At the Last Sound    
Winter Tortoise    
Domboshaba    
Self-Portrait with a Missing Tongue    
A Benediction for Climbing Boys    
Shibboleth    
Sea    
The Parable of the Tree    
Mama    
In the House of Mourning    
Fetching    
Batting    
Mourning at Night    
First Algebra    
The Other    
Stole (Chain of Sorrow)     
Lares    
Fish Camp    
Naomi    
White Noise    
On Saying There Is No God    
Homonym    

Notes