Proximate Moments & Other Poems – Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Proximate Moments & Other Poems Chinua Ezenwa-OhaetoProximate Moments (on getting sick and not picking calls from Olisa Eloka) I have curly hair, my mum does and her mum too.Thought: something must have happened somewhere, somehow, along the line of lineage.I come...
A Ghost in the Living Room & Other Poems – Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
A Ghost in the Living Room & Other Poems Abdulkareem AbdulkareemA Ghost in the Living Room A husky voice unwinds from the wall matching with Pa’s – the one I heard from the cassette which defines my father in motion....
Silent Synopsis & Other Poems – Shitta Faruq Adémólá
Silent Synopsis & Other Poems Shitta Faruq AdémóláA Cartographer of Water (W)holiness is a pandemic. You wonder why your silence darkens over a platter Of silver stones. Read a book in the library, and mark that particular synopsis Where Jesus wept. In this...
Two Decades Is a Distance That Matters & Other Poems – Audrey Joy Carver
Two Decades Is a Distance That Matters & Other Poems Audrey Joy CarverUS-97 the car crumpled quickly like panties on the wrong carpet.if he really wanted to end it, there were easier ways but,he didn't want to pump the brakes and I wasn't driving.“is there still...
The Doppler Effect & Other Poems – Isabelle Baafi
The Doppler Effect & Other Poems Isabelle BaafiThe Scarecrow if I turn away from light, head bowed from the sun’sadmonishing glare, peel off from this crucifyingwood and soil punished by a plough’s claw; if I stalk the village shadows, past the schoolhouse,through...
Moonstruck & Other Poems – Nailah Mathews
Moonstruck & Other Poems Nailah Mathewsmoonstruck the city below is red-wounded burning. purple haze fentanyl-laced, she tap dances on a cliff-face the sort of thing you could fall in love...
The Grace of the Mountain & Other Poems – U.A Edwardson
The Grace of the Mountain & Other Poems U.A EdwardsonThe Grace of the Mountain a. The body hesitates toward the water and the valley serenadesinto the mouth/ around the edges licking skies wearing hue, the body blooms/ away without scent the feet tuck into rock,...
How Human It Is to Be Hungry – Jae Eason
How Human It Is to Be Hungry Jae EasonChicken bones rest scattered on a plate, surrounded by the crumbs of a newly eaten steak. Cherry Kool-Aid stained lip-shaped on the side of the cup; artificial red remnants pool in its base. A pecan pie slice sits on the side of...
The Migration of White Crows – Ejiro Edward
The Migration of White Crows Ejiro EdwardPrayer for the dead: Inna lillahi wa ina ilayhi wa raji’un. About 200 people were buried following killings of civilians by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Zamfara state, with many still unaccounted for. – Aljazeera This city has...
Two Poems – Raquel Lima
Two Poems Raquel LimaI open one more drawer I open one more drawersearching for hidden answers about my incomplete existenceand in the arduous task of putting pieces together of a fragmented puzzleshattered by cold waterin different corners of the worldI have no sense...
Two Poems – Chiwenite Onyekwelu
Two Poems Chiwenite OnyekweluScreenplay In the neighbourhood block,some eight kids are playing war.Above their heads, a falconhovers, leaving enough blackholes to swallow the sun.On the map, something is burning.I watch them through a spotfrom the blind: the youngest...
Baartman and Me – Linathi Makanda
Baartman and Me Linathi MakandaYou turn to the side and your lower body says“Who are we if not extensions of ancestral tears?” And you want to tell it “No, it is Baartman now that sits at the top part of my buttocks and this time, the show is ours. It is her and I....