The car door wrenches open. Wind swirls in flapping us out in a cling of hats and cameras towards the lighthouse at Cabo St Vincente – the south-westerly tip of Europe, of the Sagres Peninsular in Portugal.
Baobab in the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe
Photo taken by daveandlolo
Chipepo swipes at the flies that cling to his left eye. He rubs a gnarled knuckle into the eye’s inflamed corner and sighs. He leans back against the tree.
A face pressed against a window. Warm light spills through the parted curtains. Shadows hide the ten-year-old, the half-waving hand – heart ripped out of rhythm and lost.
The Phraser 