Billowing Egret On Cow Poem by Felix Bongjoh

(i)

A cream patch
of cattle egret
floats on a brownish
ambling cloud.

Is sky's ash-and-dust
ambling animal
the mooing cow stuck
in the marsh

of a tumbling hillside
after the rainstorm
that weaved earth

and sky into dark
curtains for earth's
doors and windows?

(ii)

Egret on a cow
hanging on
the goldenrod flame
of a cloud

perched on flames,
a billowing
stretching dawn
taking over
a floating stormy morning
croaking at my door,

as the thunderclap
unbolting the door,
also split a crack to yawn
with a yelping window
taking off its sash.

A dawn's world
unlocks into a ranch,
an egret on a cow
mooing out how sky

and earth spin one
rolling floor croaking
with my young nephew
buried in a mass grave

on the stretching door
to the toothed orifice
of a monarch's toothy grin,

Cameroun in one
man's eagle throat pocket.