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Pearl of Africa
Like her name
she’s a dear precious gem
pearly smooth as the ivory
adorning the callosal elephant that rumble
her birthplace, Makumu near Kisumu
smack-dab on the equator–
she was born there,
her blood pulses to the drums
of the Luhyia, Luo, Kisii, & Kikuyu–
–a girl of African soil
who once shaped its mud into dolls
sitting cross-legged speaking Swahili
with the children who were born...
Wednesday 24th March 2021 4:59 am
African Airways
of course, a taste for the steal,
I mean, the tail just flew away
off mud and grass with loud coughing laughs
absconded a Kenyan thief,
fuzzy ringed flag
in its nozzle
sporting swifter than the
serval cat ever was
predatory indifference
taunted the dead nighttime hunter
propped up & tailless
here is what happened- a jammed bus
on 4 AM schedule careened
the hazy, dark, and trea...
Friday 19th March 2021 7:20 am
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