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...

Two Poems – Chiwenite Onyekwelu

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 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....

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