On a back road of ‘Bamako
la Coquette’
—sunset a Coleman
Pack-Away lantern
its 4 D alkaline
batteries shot—
a little kid tapping
a skinny tire
with a stick,
then he stopped:
kyrielle of bulbuls
bickering,
brushfire smoke
from a laterite pit—
I saw
that he was pointing
not
what he was pointing at