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the bumble bee going from flower
to flower, moving over the petals, a postman. the dragonfly gently whipping its small nylon wings. the butterfly opening & closing its wings like a prayer book. the birds flying over the palm trees. the tree that looks like an afro without a head to carry it. the brown ant stumbling along—o faithful! the leaves that drop, God's permutations. the ripples in the water, well-oiled weavons. the bird repeating the same tune every second, invoking her mother's spirit. the black ant crawling over the spine of a branch. is it love, this thing I have for my father? |
About This Unit: Poems on Family and Finding Other Lines of Symmetry |
ERNEST ÒGÚNYẸMÍ is a writer and editor from Nigeria. His work has appeared / is forthcoming in AGNI, Tinderbox, Southern Humanities Review, Joyland, the McNeese Review, No Tokens, among other places. He is a staff writer at Open Country.
