Towers
Slaughterhouses with towers are called castles We send sheep in battalions followed by wailing ambulances As the sun it shines high and bright in a cold blue sky Stray clouds spread veils of transparency over the universe’s nudity And a dark wall stands tall between the dream and reality To blind the naked eye of […]
At the narrow junction of the Americas At the very mouth of an man-made estuary Panama City rises its hundreds of towers to the clouds From the Pacific shores, knives of steel and glass take a jab at the sky An down below in the shadow of the modern Parnassuses Sprawl the mean streets where […]
Every day is fashion week in Accra Young black beauties compete in colours and elegance The traffic comes to a halt for the pleasure of the passerby While concrete towers compete with towering cumulus The air is hot and the tarmac melts under the light sandals If diamonds are forever, the Mitochondrial Eve is eternal […]