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.