Currently working as the marketing co-ordinator for the UNISA Library, Natalia Molebatsi is a well established performance poet who has worked locally and internationally. She is the editor of We Are, an anthology of South African poetry published by Penguin. Her first solo anthology Sardo Dance was published by Ge'ko Publishing in September 2009.

Natalia is committed to a reading Africa through reviewing and publicising relevant books and is currently studying within the broad fields of communications and media studies.

soul making

she is the story of grace housed in warmth

sanctuaries cannot feed

filling our scarftin with survival songs

tightening the knots of our lineage

making guests feel at home,

be it between her thighs,

her high or at the dinner table

cooking poems dumpling and samp

that taste like whispers on the sidewalk of memory

making love making tea making peace

undressing the night that lies

between dusk and sunrise

to make lonely men

and women feel like queens

her life’s ticking is woven

on what she makes from the nothing

that is always something

crafting dreams from

broken innocence

and making many promises

never to break like incense and cigars

rolling within the sacredness of her palms

making love making tea making peace