PILGRIMAGE

PILGRIMAGE

skimming
our coastline

trawling
deep

sooner or later
they discover
our poetry

stumble across
that great outlier
that is
Ingrid Jonker

are captivated by
her sharpness, passion,
fierce emotional
honesty
and intensity

and yet
whenever I find myself
at the place she drowned,
marked by
her tiny, sun and sea
spray
battered monument

I get no sense of this
in wildest dreams
ever
a place
of pilgrimage