LOCKDOWN POEM

It began with a hand clenched experimentally to ear not so much a fist as a makeshift mouthpiece designed to broadcast  miracles speaking in tongues: ‘habari,kangarooshni,slapit nego,nego,unulti possum! craaghi ipsit cunnilingo ? es krampit   todo   kwa heri ‘ a polyglot  mother tongue Nordic vowels, Slavic consonants Swahili syntax, Latin verse with just a touch of Lewis Carroll to …