Keywords
Africa, travel, Home
Document Type
Essay
Description
The grass lolls drunkenly under the shivering rays of sunlight. Thick trunks, like the rutabaga roots of trees growing upside down, dot the landscape. The wind is what catches you. Syrupy sweet with the blood of plump hibiscus petals and the faint stench of a hidden animal or two. The nothingness around you, just grass and majestically fat trees as far as the land can yawn. The expanse of crystal blue sky, and the weight of your own body; the vision of your lined hands against the stripes of yellow grass, tinted green in their own expectation. Dirt curling underneath bare-feet (who wears shoes in Africa?).
Recommended Citation
Shepley, Stefanie
(2020)
"A F R I C A,"
Inscape: Vol. 40:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol40/iss1/10