3 Poems│Haneefah Bello
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
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3 Poems│Ezekanne F. Paschal
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
3 Poems│Oghenetega Grey
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
3 Poems│Solomon Sunday (The Pen Healer)
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
3 Poems│Olaitan Junaid
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
3 Poems│Abuoya Eruot
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
3 Poems│Nwaoha Chibuzor Anthony
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
3 Poems by Ebuka Evans
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
3 Poems by Tobi Abiodun
Walk through this with Me My father loves better when he is drunk and my mother seizes the moment with her hands and body. We are in the living room…More
3 Poems by Bello Haneefah
A Study of Our Madnesssometimes it becomes difficult to tell the difference between my mind and a townhouse burning to the ground maybe /to be mad//is just another name/ for…More