Come rain
Come flood
Come riverbank
Wet the hinterland and swallow the Delta
Erect dikes crisscrossing the plain
Come salt water
Come muddy lakes
Come peat and untrained soil
Come terrestrial havoc that ends in praise;
How plump the strokes
How muscular the levees
Come shrub and crop;
You bulbous bend
You coconut, you cocoyam, you raffia,
Rotting in harmony.
Come child
Feel earth underneath your feet,
Seed moist ground.
Come heat
Come sand
Come naked and reverent
Nurse crystal drops with your tongue
Breathe until fallow
Stir the wind.
Come idle days, unending,
Waiting for all to wash away.
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