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    BY PROF CHRIS ANYOKWU

    Earth writhes in revolt
    Its core sodden with life-fluids haemorrhage
    Of ashen flowers long
    Starved of chlorophyll,
    The sun keeping her disdainful distance.

    The forest, the forest lies
    Blinking shards of expired logs as saplings struggle to peep through
    Shrouds of embering ash
    That wilt their yellowing petals…

    Insensate to stimuli,
    Pachyderms stomp in Bacchic abandon,lost
    In nirvana of orchestrated joys!

    Festivities in black
    The earth mourns her
    Spawn mown down at high noon,miles away from laughter.

    Gory festival!
    When shall it all cease?
    Who shall prick the calloused soles of forest tetrarchs to sodden earth? And how shall the blood-floods be dammed?

    @ Chris Anyokwu. December 26,2023

    Prof. Chris Anyokwu teaches English (Literature) at the University of Lagos (UNILAG)

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