Big beautiful sisters, Dangling like ripe fruit From a succulent tree. Our juices are honey The colour of treacle, Whorling seeds within us. Let us drop, Proud and shining To the gaping earth— Burst and water it With our mother's milk— Sweetening white earth black.
Sholamba Springtime is a poet and scholar currently based in London. Her latest collection, ‘Noir Teats’ was published in 2022. Her work deals with themes of sexuality, gender, and race, as seen through a prism of nature and naturality which fundamentally destabilises the white-Romantic-exclusive perspective. For her long poem, ‘Poundcakes on my Body,’ she was awarded the Chinua Achebe Prize.
Sholamba Springtime is a descent writer, although I prefer the work of Shakwanda Mtebele.