IT IS NIGHT AGAIN
Erín wó
Erín màmà ti lor
Àjànàkú lor nígbó It is night again
after the sun had dissolved
into the twilight river,
beyond the reach of palms, the village
and the waking child
but its footsteps dwell on d sky
of earth and time It is night again
when the street concurs
with the god of breathe and bre