feints; volcadas: extreme leans; baldoso: ‘tile’ (a six-step figure); caricias: caresses; caminando: walking; golpecitos: little toe taps between steps; cadencias: stepping in place, marking time; molinete: ‘windmill’ (walking in a wheel around the hub, i.e. the leader); cruzada: a ‘chase’ with a ‘cross’ (one way to go from the outside to the inside position); resolución: resolution. Thank you, Wikipedia.

p. 127 Phendukani Silwani Nobuntu Mazeka is gratefully acknowledged for her detailed account of the conditions of Phendukani Silwani’s life and death, which provided the source material for this poem.

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