Capetown

The Ancient Modern

Capetown  /  Joshua Alan Sturgill

On Table Mountain:
a fog-harvesting station.

Below: the City Bowl
of Capetown fills

with migrants. Above:
the skies are beautiful

but empty. All Africa,
anxious. Hope, progress

halted by fear
of future thirst

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