“Map age genes place of origin
and love's lineaments.For mapped onto each body is love.Carthography of one's own country
or the contours of a foreign land”

— Ingrid de Kok

"Body maps," http://www.oulitnet.co.za/multimedia/vonkverse_ingrid2.asp from Seasonal Fires: Selected and New Poems (2006), a contribution for the WikiAfrica Literature Project.

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