Barolong Seboni

1957 / Botswana

Sunrise

Feathery shafts of the nascent sun
dust cobwebs of sleep
from spidery lashes,
carefully caressing away
the mercury heaviness of the night
enveloping cocooned bodies
Then like metamorphosed worms
laminated in silky lightness,
We butterfly into the mulberry-fresh morning.
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