Langston Hughes
is merry glory.
Is saltatory.
Yet grips his right of twisting free.
Has a long reach,
Strong speech,
Remedial fears.
Muscular tears.
Holds horticulture
In the eye of the vulture
Infirm profession.
In the Compression-
In mud and blood and sudden death-
In the breath
Of the holocaust he
Is helmsman, hatchet, headlight.
See
One restless in the exotic time! and ever,
Til the air is cured of its fever.
Bookish Naija Gal 