The Tree
THE ROOT has struck
A layer of rock;
The sap dries out in the stem
Upwards:
The blood dries out in the vein
Like sap
Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was born in 1930. He was a Nigerian poet and he is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English - language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1967 while fighting for the independence of Biafra.
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