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Wearing a Body In inheriting clothes from my mother,I have begun to wear her body;In wearing her body,I have begun to unravel parts of me thatcarry questions I cannot form…More
Prints prints are … left overs of dreamslike spittle in the mouth after an unsavoury meal or remnant meatstuck stubbornly in the crawprints are … dust that swirls but never…More
Scattered Verses of My Letter to God iii. I remember the day you died,It was the same evening pa lost his name.We called him a body.The sky stained himself with…More
Grief The orbital between a bleeding heart & watery eyesis like the affair between day & night. The former is the aftermath of the later.There are moments that bring you to…More
Survival i the therapist saysfather can only surviveby chewing cold breezefrom machines breathing inside walls.yet i wonder why his face burns with flamesthat shot so high they even burn the…More
Awo OlugbebeConversations with Tope Mark The stretched handsfolded fingers into a collectivethat birthed my great-grandfatherCannot be refusedIt is like a witness to anger in the presence of the oldBut here…More
Bewilderedness there are days you wander in between trunks of trees in the darkest forest imbedded in your veins. you wished plucking your two lens out of their sockets; wanting…More
Light and Darkness I’ve gotten you a tomb surrounded by twenty one flowers – Anonymous. (I) I am a demon fallen in love with an angel. Ha! Hii! Ho! While…More
Upon the Still Waters of the Niger, I Wrote This i am trapped in an influx of gaseous watersa rhythmic trombone writhes me into transparency& glow is a myth, so…More