MORNING LIGHT (the Dew-Drier) by Effie Lee Newsome.
In Africa little black boys, “human brooms,” are sent before the explorers into jungle grasses that tower many feet to tread down a path and meet sometimes the lurking leopard or hyena.
Patience...patience
they all say...
but will patience
climb up a stair
or pick up a spoon
or chant a litany?
...those hollows
worn in a cathedral step
by the long slow... PATIENCE by Frank Horne.
