A Shadow

Congolese Dreams: From A Shadow


At the bank of a river stood a shadow, 
it had walked thirty and four miles from 
a wooden hut like a broken ant dragging an 
injured worm to an ant hill. 
On its left, a coconut tree stood pregnant, 
whose canopy has been tempted by the wind 
to make a shade...
-- 
"but what can a shadow do for a shadow?"
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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