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Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan

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I will grow you into a poem | Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan

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I will grow you into a poem
hoping you seed into a mimosa that opens to only my touch   hoping I could fetch from your shy fern a goblin full of honey   hoping your soil…
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Homestretch

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  i wake to her hoot & the flapping of her wings a new bird on my windowsill spilling the dawn across the drapes it is a new day to…
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