EVENING SONG
My heart is closest to you
in this bright hour
of evening
My heart remembers
pulling streamers of laughter
through sorrows
Until I know I see you
whirled above hard silt
entwining me with God *
EDITOR’S NOTE
Source: ArchiviNG (Nigeria Magazine, 1 January 1987). The source lists Kwame Dawes and Gwyneth Dawes without assigning individual authorship; this archival presentation retains that record.