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it surely is the same wrinkled sky from years ago
when i lived in dense forest towns
when cold winds chafed Iroko bark
like
prayers chafe fingers.
i smoothed my first grinding stone with rocks
rocks
picked from streets maddened from stoning thieves.
i peered down wells
and called to the nameless to find out for myself:
guards of the wide road
where mothers have gone mad
where faint rhymes tuck
into palms,
love
poems in vapors,
breastmilk curdles with ghosts,
and from mounds poured for the forgotten,
i walked, anyhow, anyhow myself
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