Watermaid iiByChristopher Okigbo
Bright
with the armpit-dazzle of a lioness,
she answers,
wearing white light about her;
and the waves escort her,
my lioness,
crowned with moonlight.
So brief her presence-
match-flare in wind's breath-
so brief with mirrors around me.
Downward...
the waves distil her:
gold crop sinking ungathered.
Watermaid of the salt emptiness,
grown are the ears of the secret.
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