The Sunset Drive-in Cinema

I watched the flamed sky
as the earth rolled back
and made it seem
like the sun had set.

‘When I was just a little girl…’

I remember waiting
for the dark to start
as we sat in the car
at the drive-in cinema.

My mother loved Doris Day.

Strange business on earth
all the cars kept apart
by a long wood fence
with the whites to the right.

‘Que sera sera, what will be…’

Separate development
they called apartheid
and I developed separately
determinedly differently.

‘The future’s not ours to see…’

I watch the flaming sky
as the earth rolls back
and makes it seem
like the sun is setting.