Moments in Artsville

Moments in Artsville

(For Toyin Akinoso at 50)

Along with my pair of rims, I’m one in a million

of the imbibers that weekly and perennially scan

cues and moments like a residency in Artsville-

tit-bits at sunrise in a column enough to scale

Lethe’s alphabets into portals of awareness

Golden and jubilant, you are the Artsville’s

lord- purveyor of wrangling dreams and ideals

posted on page, stage and canvas from Lagos

to Cairo to Jo’bourg, as well as the yet unposted-

drummings, strummings, trumpetings

scribblings, sculptings, sightings

chatterings, mongerings, seethings

dispatches that are torch and tune ample to power

a plaza of ideas to mean more than an altar’s wafer.

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