Carve Your Prayers & Other Poems  Damilola Omotoyinbo

Carve Your Prayers & Other Poems Damilola Omotoyinbo

Carve Your Prayers & Other Poems Damilola Omotoyinbo​Vignettes of Love I. I hate our love for what it would not become. Perhaps we will learn this religion. Recite incantations and conjure the gods. But before then, let's give pillows to sleeping dogs. II. What is...

Retroflex & Other Poems – Saheed Sunday

Retroflex & Other Poems – Saheed Sunday

Retroflex & Other Poems Saheed Sundayin the syntax of some languages, minnesota can fill in the same gap as láfénwá i always thought my father knew how to do           it best. this cradling of soft whispers into a form of hissing. exit was the best way to call...

Proximate Moments & Other Poems – Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto

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...

Silent Synopsis & Other Poems – Shitta Faruq Adémólá

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...

The Doppler Effect & Other Poems – Isabelle Baafi

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 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 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 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 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 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...

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