You
have known Togane prolix
Here
is Togane brief
Waxing
In
another phase
In
another face
In
the misty blue mood
In
the melting mood
In
the melodious mood
In
the yellow mellow mood
Parading
IN
A BIRTHDAY
ACROSTIC
Madeleine
for you this Mohamud will go to every
mountain Mohamed went to
All
who know you tell me how lucky I am to
have happened upon you
Darling
I wish I too knew how old I am so I
could act my age like Father William
Eat
your hearts out I say to all who envy
and covet our love
Love
rescued me when I surrendered to our
twined entwined soul
Ears
have yet to hear a name more mystical
than my Madeleine
I
and you are as light as right as tight
as together as a finger and her ring
No
matter how ice-cold our Quebec igloo
gets we are always aglitter aglow in
our fire
Exactly
what juju I deployed to win you to
twin our souls friends foes want to
figure
Lots
and lots of folks want to figure
exactly how to spell Lefebvre
Everybody
throws a fit of a fever whenever I say
there is a b in Lefebvre
Forget
it humphed harrumphed more than a
baker’s dozen so far
Everybody
gets le fever because of how uncommon
my Lefebvre is
Bless
the day when I lucked out on my
Lefebvre
Victory
is the other name of our love
Rare
is the attar of our love
Enjoy
it we do day in day out.
—Mohamud Siad Togane