Dancing hibiscus, furious wind, unpleasant dust, Catholic of leaves waving
 
in space, deserted noises in total horizon's break,  the world rumbles.
 
mothers gather stubborn clothing: birds in the wind hovering, the metal man of 
 
heaven speaks through the microphone, children escape through doors, their 
 
bones screaming in the cold, the windows slap the walls in anger, and get a furious 
 
pushback, a radio voice breaks into two senseless noises, bird songs perch on my ears,
 
the soldier of space matching on metal roof, every drop a hard blow to earth. 
 
This annual visitor that overstays its welcome, makes me unwell all season.

Author’s Biography
Philip Chijioke Abonyi is a writer from Enugu State, Nigeria. He won Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize, in 2022, and the Archipelago Poetry Competition, 2023. He was shortlisted in Eriata Abhobor Poetry Prize, in 2019. His works have appeared in Starbucks Magazine, Poetry Column Ng,Typehouse magazine, Nantygreens, Art lounge Press and elsewhere.