RIFT
Sharpened
By millennia,
Furrowed
By torrents,
You claw the earth’s crust
From Madagascar
To the Red Sea.
Squint-eyed,
I peer
Into the equatorial blaze
Where dust devils
Churn red volcanic soil.
In the middle distance,
Cool, thick-shouldered
Longonot rises
Death stalks
On a narrow path;
Ears tuned to lion sighs.
Bleached land seas
Roil over the valley.
South,
Through the heat haze;
Shimmering Mt. Margaret,
Blue skirted Ngong Hills,
Kiss the sky
Forever.
Fragments of Eternity, Memories of Africa
From Unpublished Poetry
