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Love first came to you as your father on his knees, arching his back for the gate man; his rolls of fat glistening with sweat with the gate man’s arm…More
come here, watch him bend and jump into the riverhow he breaks the surface every few seconds to laugh at mei write in the poem that i cannot swimthat i…More
Unbeknownst Some years ago,Dad kissed the house goodbye,Left me searching for the name of every line in my palm,Broken like an eagle whose wings have been shot,And my eyes drowning…More
For Lagosians in recess POETRY walks on the streets in Lagos. It is in the incredible dynamic of life which enacts, like some incandescent power, the moment of each living…More
in her you will come to seethe genesis of voices embedded intwigs of shades. you will come to seequagmires, large like hitler’s armageddon,being drowned under the auspice of tears.you will…More
Souls on Rampage Commotion cracks human abodesOver unprecedented toll of deathsRunning and dying our experienceOn this untimely ravaging deathsNations panic in pains and perilsAllowing humanity dread its existenceVerily, verily, it…More
How to Discover Life in a Dead Body when you first heard a thing breaksit was your heart,the world tendered a seat on your head and every breathof the air…More
Six Months of a Millennia //it’s just six months since cancer gripped my father’s lungs to the hospital bed & i keep dreaming of a bird who once drifted to…More
nothing good ever comes easyisn’t it only human then,to distrust this breathing and this is how the world stops spinninga girl, 23, asks the morning for peace takes a peek…More