Showing posts with label Niyi Osundare. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Lily by Niyi Osundare

How does one count

The teeth of a laughing lily


Burrow through

The passion of its petals


Pluck every bullet

In the barrel of its pistil


Flick its filament

Which turns on the sun


Like a blooming bulb

Dance through the brown


Dentistry of its drought

Slice the air


With the green sword

Of its leaves. . .


Rinsed by the rain

Its laughter glistens like a vow


Haughticulturally

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