BEFORE THE BLAST

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cowries
clatter and clash

on the grim neck
of figurines

as the skies go grey
amidst gathering clouds

and the river flows
backwards

back to the primaeval
point of origin

and the beads hastily
walk out

walk out
of the diviner’s calabash

and the red
in a rainbow grows

grows outrageously
crimson

and the loud
thunder-clap cracks

cracks the earthen-pot
of existence

and…..

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