Danie Marais soek na 'n kuur vir witheid in Ek en jy bestaan nie
the young white male
might be as well
the old white whale
scarred and virile
ever out of reach
no matter how each
hunts him
already seen too much
and cast as such
a beast so evil
that he shouldn’t be so
bitter he’s left no rung
for a life with anyone
that loves him
no scholarships
or jobs programs
to safely pull him
back to land,
keeps exploring
murky depths
while
Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of ‘The Negation of Exile’ in Israeli Culture,” published in English in 2017, did essential work to conceptualize the price of erasing exile within the Jewish national project