AFRICAN EVENING

African evening/shouts of
laughter/communal singing

swirls of dust/babies
bobbing in swaddling cloths

African evening/pale indigo
sky/stacked green mangoes

bright red palm nuts/schoolgirls
skipping hand-in-hand

African evening/hot, heavy
air/hospital breezeways

sleeping children/healing
stitches/new lives unfolding

African evening JOYCE SIDMAN

I had the privilege to document Children’s Surgery International’s Ghana mission last November.
To learn more about CSI and
visit our trip journal, click here.