Tell Me Something Happy Mòje Ikpeme “There’s a saying in England: Where there’s smoke there’s fire.” – James Bond, From Russia with Love.It is Obiageli who insists that you start therapy, and gives you her hours, as she is out of the country for the next...
A Road Called Love Sibongile Fisher Here. There is love. Inside my mother’s sacrifice reaching for fleeting hope. I knew this. I know this now. There is love in this car as we drive on the M1. You turn to face me and smile. Your eyes tell of someone lost. Your smile...
Self-Portrait With Anxiety & Other Poems Precious Arinze Sometimes i am my father’s daughter, but mostly i am his hands yes, i too, have been leftcradling what silence does to the body –my tongue, a small animal trapped in a forest of teeth, ableto demand...
Aubade to Transfiguration in a House of Ghosts & Other Poems Chisom Okafor my sex drive as basis for other interpretations of newton’s laws of motionafter Chaun Ballard and Itiola Jonesswing low, sweet chariotcoming for to carry me home─ believed to have been...
Two Poems A. Martine scapegrace always when things get (… get what?) i feel like i did as a childhiding from grownups during early morning travelspeople asking where is she clenchesevery nerve in my bodysends delicious ripples down my legsit is how i know...
