Donatella du Plessis

Donatella du Plessis is an emerging writer from Durban, South Africa. She teaches English and French.

“For the Polar Bear at Joburg Zoo”

They’ve painted your tank blue so you forget
how your paws flung moonstone stars across the
Northern Lights, how your cubs, seal-small, clung to
falling spires of snow and scarred, songless ice,