Accra, Ghana

Little more than wooden tables, informal stalls

cluster around the tro-tro stations

on the northwest side of nkrumah circle, worked

by women and pre-pubescent girls,

their quiet grace protesting life’s inelegance,

God’s silence

amid poverty’s deafening noise.

 

— Darren J. N. Middleton

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