Swept Away
Fiela verb to sweep
Fiela verb to sweep [Sotho]
Fiela verb to sweep rubbish
Fiela [see also restore order]
Fiela human rubbish clogs the system
Fiela am I different because of my visa?
Fiela what is the degree of separation between
Fiela legal rubbish and non-legal rubbish? Go back
Fiela to your country, foreigner, my friend said it
Fiela jokingly but I felt the sting // are we ever safe?
Fiela Jodi Bieber captured monochrome stills of prisoners
Fiela shackled in twos en route to deportation repatriation fields
Fiela I wanted the images but you can’t take pictures in the gallery
Fiela Mother escaped with a canvas bag of her past five years, sleeps
Fiela in refugee camp at Beitbridge // says she has nowhere to go to but
Fiela government minister says disloyal citizens got what they deserved //
Fiela Black Easter sparked by lynching foreign criminal woman // exodus begins
“Swept Away” was first published in Oxford Poetry, Winter 2017. It also appeared in Tariro Ndoro’s poetry collection Agringada: Like a Gringa, Like a Foreigner, published by Modjaji Books, 2019.