National Poetry Month - 2 of 30

An excerpt from the Elegba interviews

Love is all I bring / inna mih khaki suit an ting…

                                                Althia & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking

I tell it like this – the weather is mine

     to make with as I please

why my left hand          don’t have the courage

of the right, but performs all the same

tasks.     I say  Look, woman

what’s happening is       sustained heat

   don’t follow your guesswork, don’t follow

     your mind. Can you trust it?

Follow

            the ball in my hand  this way

the fingers make it move forward & spin

back in on itself                        is English

I tell it like this  look up under

the  brim of my lid  yeah – that’s night

and seven kinds of questionable decisions

in them stars     you think

I leave Olympus                        dressed

            like a butterfly house

for nothing?

            Come again love – my intentions

are pure            as this weather

   and smoke   well you already know

is sacrament                  Blood me

your largest black cock – the one

with the red comb and hood

                        and we’ll call it even

                        you get to tell the story

any way you choose.

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