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A Day with Air
by Odu Ode
The mountain obstructs the length
Of the distant buildings.
The air meanders freely above brown rooftops,
Turning treetops in the dance of directions.
With a family of tired rocks;
Twenty-eight of them, I sat puncturing
The sight of mud-houses & old-new roofs
Evinced by green trees like scarce hyphens.
Reduced silence and the buoyant air-teeth
Drag the length of my earlobes.
Sun interjecting the length of the space
With absentminded warmth capsuled
In the howls of the gentle wind.
Fate of houses submerge
In the navel of a vast land walled by
The mountains homing trees.
Bleating of rams and goats & their
Teeth morphing libation of leaves into their throats.
People appear people disappear in farther distances.
People appear people disappear before my face.
People appear people disappear in my memory.
Fresh leaved pawpaw and mangoes
Mourning their offspring.
The eyes – sacrificing lust before flaccid steps.
Greetings in abeyance.
Kids collecting the breeze into themselves.
Epidermal breeze-bathing
& desire for a companion to sightsee the coconut trees
Stretching hands toward waiting bosom of the almond tree.
