Abiku by John Pepper Clark
Coming and going these several seasons,Do stay out of the baobab tree,Follow where you please your kindred spirits If indoors is not enough for you.True, it leaks through the thatchWhen floods brim the banks,And the bats and owlsOften tear in at night through the eaves,And at harmattan, the bamboo wallsAre ready tinder for the fireThat…