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Deborah June Goemans

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Deborah June Goemans grew up on a flower farm in Cape Town in a dirty little nicotine-stained house situated between the Main Road and the railway line, where her mother's lullabies were accompanied by the roar of the traffic, the siren song of the trains, and the clicking sounds of African voices as they walked towards their apartheid forced world below the line, where black families lived in single rooms and chickens and children ran in the streets. ...more

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The Amaranth Bloom

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After the Fire: Rebirth!

After the Fire: Rebirth! By Deborah June Goemans
In the Constantiaberg valley, there is a type of amaryllis called Brunsvigia orientalis. It pops up out of the ground in March and April like an Easter egg. No leaves, no warning, and then it is there—unfolding into a spray of thirty brilliant, bright red flowers. Eventually these dry up and break off as a tumbleweed that rolls down the mountain, sha Read more of this blog post »
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