By t. Michael Mboya
She volleys back jokes
in an ear-caressing lisp
that seeps through
a beauty gap in her teeth.
Then there is her laughter:
water falls
under which I slough off
and have my mind renewed.
And her waddle
in that hip-hugging long skirt
is a riddle.
So in her presence I
stutter
in word and deed
- a splashing about
that beckons the correct answer
to the riddle that stands
between me and my own
between me and me.
Prof T. Michael Mboya is the Director, Academic Programmes, Moi University, Odera Akang'o Campus. @TomMichaelMboya
