Obododimma Oha
Was climbing a tree climbing a solar experience
Was waltzing the temptations of the leaves
Was wing in chlorophyll, greening my pathos
Was in the shadows as in the mood of a flowering tan
Was reading the spots on the skin of a talkative squirrel
Was hoping a Nobel could xylem through to the best human beast
Was arboreal in the post-human, seven harams away from sainthood
Was poetry was prose in the visual silence
Was fallen in Eden, liberated from orgasms
Was threesome oneness happening ever-after
Obododimma Oha teaches Stylistics, Semiotics, and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Otoliths, Shadowtrain, Postcolonial Text, Portal, African Writing Online, Sentinel Poetry Online, and several literary anthologies.