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Deep in the forest, atop the world.
Friends,
Memories
Dreams of change
and dreams of things that could stay the same.
Stories around the fire
Elephants pick maize fields clean shuck the corn and eat the cobs,
Uproot potatoes, take a taste, then replant them as the fields are not ripe.
It is said, before the herds dwindled
The forest people could speak elephant.
Why not?
There are those who can feel color
blindfolded, they sense hue through fingertips.
A man can solves three rubic’s cubes while juggling.
Mama Temoi says the wants to see Nairobi —
to her it is an unimaginable journey.
The ends of the earth to me are the center of her world.
The map-makers made a biased editorial decision, to a billion people, Africa is the center of the planet.
A donkey brays like Gondor’s horn
breaks the morning.
The rooster covers his ears
yearning for another hour of sleep.
