Oh! Sleeping wife

Baobab and banana wife,
Maize porridge and okra child,
When snoring echoes sound
Metallic, musical, mundane.

Onto wet pot-holed tarmac
Pour shapes,
Shaped and shapeless silhouettes,
Cotton clothed, cool, curious.

Oh sleeping banana wife!

Encore,
A mere echo afterwards,
Of freeing limb lifters’ feet.

Encore to the unguarded milk trolley,
Musical and shapeful,
Into odd banana plantations!