like the chekeleke song after it rainslike salt for lickinglike prayers and hymnslike a fence of gmelina trees blocking the sunlike the plosives in a namelike answering yours backwardslike seasonal migrationlike going back to wherever one is welcomedlike ice blocks inducing numbnesslike moringa from a distant relativelike panadol—ampiclox—tetracyclinelike obara jesuslike infused greens on the third daylike drinking with your eyes closedlike stuffing a rival’s mouth with sandlike standing tall in the mudlike one’s motherlike one’s own deliverer