Dinghy Boat
for Victoria Gyamfi-Kumanini

as if I wanted to sink the ship
of our relationship

just a dinghy, just a skiff

great big weighty bolder I rested in it
as if expecting it to
or wanting it to sink

or to capsize or break into bits
like fiddle sticks

wanted to add the marble we're on
our earth and with it, with her,
row back, row black to Africa


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
5:31 p.m. 22.07.09