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Salimah Valiani

SALIMAH VALIANI is a poet, activist, and researcher. She has published six collections of poetry. Her latest, 29 leads to love, has just been released by Inanna Publications. Her audiobook, Love Pandemic, is forthcoming from Daraja Press. Salimah’s poems and creative nonfiction have been published in online literary magazines in Africa including brittle paper, Praxis Magazine, Poetry Potion and Jalada. She lives in many places and crosses borders frequently.

inclines of knowing you call it where sky kisses earth I call it land of the sky is it the sky bending or earth reaching growing up by the Rockies I only learned in Magaliesberg the older the mountains the smaller that the world’s oldest are the Makhonjwa 3.5 billion year old rocks holding microfossils stromatolites ancient marine shores… ‘the genesis of life’ kiss not known to the majority reached for by a minority of the minority Near Calgary, Canada Near Johannesburg, South Africa Near Barberton, South Africa Salimah Valiani 2022