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Where the Heat Was

A Malawian truck driver in a long brown work coat stands side-on beside an old truck, one hand resting flat on its bright red bonnet, in a pale cold grey field between stepped black-green panels.

I keep my hand where the warmth used to be.

Her Hands Go First

An older Mosotho woman in a dark shawl presses closed the pin of a green Basotho blanket patterned with cream maize cobs at a young man's shoulder while he stands still, hands at his sides, in a field fading from deep charcoal to warm sandstone pink between pale bone panels.

I could fasten it myself. I let her.

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