When You Erase Someone In Ink They Return In Blood

Title: When You Erase Someone In Ink, They Return In Blood

Author: Lwandle Lelo Shabangu
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“I burned the pages, but the smoke smelled like your skin.”
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Writing was supposed to be an exorcism, but for Lwandle Lelo Shabangu, the pen only carved the ghost deeper.
​When You Erase Someone In Ink, They Return In Blood is a raw, 150-page descent into the anatomy of a haunting. Through ten visceral poems and a series of sharp, shadow-drenched reflections, this collection explores the violent intimacy of a forbidden love that refuses to stay buried.
​This is a book for the beautifully ruined... for those who know that you cannot kill a memory when it has already become part of your circulation.
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"The ink has dried. The bleed has begun."