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| NAIJA POETRY: Night Rain By John Pepper Clark by NaijaphiliaBlog: 1:24pm On Dec 18, 2021 |
NIGHT RAIN What time of night it is I do not know Except that like some fish Doped out of the deep I have bobbed up belly wise From stream of sleep And no cock crow It is drumming hard here And I suppose everywhere Droning with insistent ardor upon Our roof thatch and shed And through sheaves slit open To lightning and rafter I cannot quite make out over head Great water drops are dribbling... ... to continue reading, with illustrations: https://naijaphilia.com/2021/12/18/naija-poetry-night-rain/
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