heading towards the drylandsroad unravelling in the heat beyondand beyond and beyondcrossing rivers with names that once wereseekoei, olifant and leeuenboschfolding their green secretsinto damp seams of memoryand shaded river grasspassing fields of wind turbinestowering the grey veld and termite mounds and we yearn and lean across the distancetailing the long mountainswatching soil change from…