DEEP GREEN
DEEP GREEN (Once upon a Forest) Deep green, my testament, as I forage through this forest of vanished glories, my memory one shell of naked echoes Roots have shriveled in earth’s heat-harassed crypt blighted leaves float in the wind like flakes of careless scars Long-limbed lumbermen have laid low the loins of the land; the Yes-I birds have left with their rainbow songs The desert marches towards the sea, a haughty, implacable army . . . Once (not too long ago) I talked to trees in this forest and trees talked back to me, Deep green By Osundare Niyi 🇳🇬