The Old Woman And Her High-Heeled Shoes

The wind was blowing furiously

Furiously like a woman in the pangs of childbirth

And it was raining Cats and Dogs

Cats and Dogs that you might think the world was coming to an end

And there she was in the midst of this Scylla and Charybdis

In her high-heeled shoes

In spite of her very old age

Struggling with the furious wind, the raving rain and her high-heeled shoes,

Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna

September 11, 2009.