Poem of the Week |27| Hanging #2 (Things Fall Apart)
Hanging #2 (Things Fall Apart)
For JL
As I relax in Inchydoney
reading ‘Things Fall Apart’
by Chinua Achebe
you encounter a real life
hanging and with no time
to think you scale the tree
and save a man’s life.
Twenty four hours later
I could do nothing to save
Okonkwo, only read to the
end of his story.