SPRING
Late summer loaded its vehicle
Of awful drought in extended tentacles
Its attendant pains were its escorts
Reluctantly-dragged its long awaited
Heavy farewell bade – most disgusted
Mine – farewell, swift and light
It somnambulated that to a curse
Grey field tailgated – followed its course
As my mind pushed them all away
To the west, spring vortex sailed
Like in herd, like in flock, behind one another trailed
A full moon floated due East
It was last confident moon
That would quench and quell soon
Behind a heavy sky of rain cloud
Though lingered but o eess disappeared -
The unwilling late summer, not well feared
Completely all fronting and tailgating
Then a breeze blew hurriedly and banana leaves
Frenzied wildly, like enchanted life – heaved
As dust weird and whirled in all cardinals
The wind gathered cloud-lets
Along, in its combat-like swept
Inferior moon queued behind
Like fangs of broom cooperated
In a bounce; resilient and dominated
Super rain cloud overpowered the sky
Rain cloud dominance won
Ejected thunderstorm as if in a war
With warring rebel, unleashed
Its dominance in deep darkness
As children quivered at its thunderstormingness
Engulfed bravery in an aged man
Suddenly sky water coagulated, heavier
Denser than the weary air
Then sank down into the womb of virgin soil
The two viable gametes: virgin soil and rain
Fused into living zygote; meiotic reigned
And green grew on grey
The green flew in eye-flight
Butterflies waggled from flower to flower
Condensed were they on hibiscus bright
Early we rose at the wake of dawn
To a hurry home return before the dusk
To beat rain to a good number of time
And all the dust that trailed
The tail of trailer had been tamed
But pothole water splattered aside
She wouldn’t let go her dented gown
White gown marred pothole water brown
Doled out curse in unmeasured sizes
The humid air whirled
Whirled and wheeled; rolled like rim
And merged the cloud, made the rain
Momentum the windstorm gathered
Ruffled her dented gown further
And laid bar her ebony pair
She fumbled with her dented flowing gown
While quietly measuring and sizing down
The curse at her mind, to dose out
The shoes were not dusty, rather
Murky, not minding her busty either
All her statements – altered
The sun lewd lazily behind
The sparse dark cloud, hide
Tropospheric air misty and humid
We had wrestled some hours
From the rain that would soon shower
Rushed home to beat the dusk
So so we spent each spring day
After the rain the stars were borne
The sky-like grit washed off, diamond lured
As moon made effort at some looming
In echelon egrets had earlier returned
Last batches of bats flew pass in turns
Neighbourhood noise rose to the ceding of rain
Children, women in village would rise in race
By the dawn to pick the snails
That cast off cysts for the rain
Soaked-rotten the filthy things;
Dropped off under mango and cherry trees
Mixed, blended and fed the soil
Cold seeped through all guards
Terrorized every room including gourds
And we sought repose in layered style
In the city, the price would rise and fall
Yam flour – up; okro – dawn; limestone – stall
As traders come and go; sell or store
I made myself beckoned and beheld
For one point or two to portend
The rain chased me here and there
And soaked away the pen and paper I held.
Adesokan Saheed Ademola
Department of Chemistry,
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso
Submitted: January 27, 2021
© Copyright 2021 Adesokan Saheed Ademola. All rights reserved.
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