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Watu Wazuri

Watu Wazuri ATUKWEIOKAI (to B.B. AttuquayefJo) When all the blue is gone out of the sky and the remaining hue is nothing to fly a kite by, birdsong is the green lawn of spring on which the ears laze. Upon the nile of my soul, the lullaby of the flutist floats like a kite at dawn. Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder you are acquainted with the laughter of thunder © FonTomFrom: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and Fi/m, ed. Kofi Anyidoho & James Gibbs (Matatu 21-22; Amsterdam & Atlanta GA: Editions Rodopi, 2000). 334 ATUKWEI OKAI ~ but not with the look and the smile of her lightning that will meander like the singing leap-year spine of the sexy celestial belly dancer. Like a Bobodiulasso kite commissioned by the Supreme Council of the clouds and the moonlight and the ten toes and ten fingers of the horizon of the soul, you only wander and wonder- you do not see the world you sing about Waumdaji, Waumdaji Rhododendrons in donkeydom. Beethoven Beethoven you do not hear the songs you sing about the world Waumdaji, Waumdaji "'<! Watu Wazuri 335 Rhododendrons in donkeydom. III Miriam Makeba .. . Miriam Makeba .. . She shall http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Matatu Brill

Watu Wazuri

Matatu , Volume 21 (1): 4 – Apr 26, 2000

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0932-9714
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1875-7421
DOI
10.1163/18757421-90000335
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ATUKWEIOKAI (to B.B. AttuquayefJo) When all the blue is gone out of the sky and the remaining hue is nothing to fly a kite by, birdsong is the green lawn of spring on which the ears laze. Upon the nile of my soul, the lullaby of the flutist floats like a kite at dawn. Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder you are acquainted with the laughter of thunder © FonTomFrom: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and Fi/m, ed. Kofi Anyidoho & James Gibbs (Matatu 21-22; Amsterdam & Atlanta GA: Editions Rodopi, 2000). 334 ATUKWEI OKAI ~ but not with the look and the smile of her lightning that will meander like the singing leap-year spine of the sexy celestial belly dancer. Like a Bobodiulasso kite commissioned by the Supreme Council of the clouds and the moonlight and the ten toes and ten fingers of the horizon of the soul, you only wander and wonder- you do not see the world you sing about Waumdaji, Waumdaji Rhododendrons in donkeydom. Beethoven Beethoven you do not hear the songs you sing about the world Waumdaji, Waumdaji "'<! Watu Wazuri 335 Rhododendrons in donkeydom. III Miriam Makeba .. . Miriam Makeba .. . She shall

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Published: Apr 26, 2000

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