Skirt
By Niyi Osundare
Come,
Sweetheart
Come tonight
Let’s meet in the elbow
Of the street
Skip all care
Breach all walls
Jump over the gutter
Of the moon
Come, sweetheart
Don’t forget to come
In our favourite skirt
* Niyi Osundare (photo) is one of the most prominent within the generation of contemporary Nigerian poets that emerged after Wole Soyinka, J.P. Clark-Bekederemo, and Gabriel Okara. Born in 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ondo State of Nigeria, he studied at Ibadan, Leeds and Toronto, and now teaches in the Department of English, University of Ibadan. His poems have won many national and international prizes, among which was the 1986 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. His published works include: Sing of Change; Songs of the Marketplace; Village Voices; Moonsongs; The Eye of the Earth; The Nib in the Pond; Waiting Laughters; and Midlife.
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