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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
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