Conversation with SA poets - 9: C.J. Driver
C.J. Driver https://pensouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Driver.jpg This time round, I went looking on the website of The Red Wheelbarrow , a new online open mic with an exciting lineup of poets from around the country. The most recent writing featured on the website is an evocative poem titled in the water margins , by C.J. Driver. Below is my response. As usual, anyone visiting is invited to respond too, in the comments section. Sounds in the shower a poem by Jean Watermeyer, after C.J. Driver Sounds in the shower-- water falling inside four walls constructs, in the corners, noises shaped somehow by thought, or by the wifi - full of news: first and always, the stainless steel drain ricochets the cries of my baby waking and calling for me, though I know from experience he is still sleeping and I should know by now the sound is too soft, a dream of crying that could also be the shouts of rioters, or weeping; the electronic sounds of a hospital ward - feet, conversations