Liturgies & Other Poems – Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Liturgies & Other Poems Adesiyan OluwapelumiGethsemane In the garden of prayer, where perspiration fell heavy as blood and faint knees sank into the earth, I was the mustard seed of want, sown in the golden hour of spring. At every canonical hour, I watered the...
A Light Between Us & Other Poems – Patrick Sylvain
A Light Between Us & Other Poems Patrick SylvainA Light Between Us I kissed your left eye,Your gaze morphed into starlight. You squeezed my right hand,Silence slipped between us. The last rays of a reddish-yellow lightFiltered through gray river birches. We...
Echoes of War: Poems – Hera de Jesus
Echoes of War: Poems Hera de JesusArmed Homeland In memory of our heroes, holding ballots, chanting hymns. We mourn you, Mozambique. Clenched fists, we tear the veins of this land, crying for justice. each tiny moving change. a breath. We no longer sing. The sun of...
Nine Poems – Ondjaki
Nine Poems Ondjaki Translated from Angolan Portuguese by Rui Martinho1. in the morning, before the world,things always look simpler.there is a tenderness in the word dew;the pigeon and the cock greetin a slippery come-by.moments drip andtick the hours away.in the...
A Selection of Eight Poems – Véronique Tadjo
A Selection of Eight Poems Véronique Tadjo Translated by Alani Rosa Hicks-BartlettYou have broken the mirrorin which you would look at yourselfand you don’t recognise yourself anymoreYou don’t even knowhow to write your own nameor what your voice sounds like ...
Une sélection de huit poèmes – Véronique Tadjo
Une sélection de huit poèmes Véronique TadjoTu as cassé le miroir,dans lequel tu te regardaiset tu ne te reconnais plusTu ignoresjusqu’à l’écriture de ton nomet le son de ta voixPartir / revenirces allées et venuesde la vienous laissent fatiguéslassés que rien...
All the New News Say We Will Die & Other Poems – Ayòdéjì Israel
All the New News Say We Will Die & Other Poems Ayòdéjì IsraelTake Me Back to When the World Was Full of Love and Flowers the world, these days, is pushing itself into extinction. the news broadcast says, crying over the speakers, that the beautiful humans of Congo...
Assembly of Lunatics & Other Poems – Pacella Chukwuma-Eke
Assembly of Lunatics & Other Poems Pacella Chukwuma-EkeAssembly of lunatics God is flaked out, ears impaired. The night tucks away the sun in her mouth, cradles the moonon one palm like a mother does her wailing child, whilst the other signals the crickets to...
Where the Light Lingers & Other Poems – Prosper C. Ìféányí
Where the Light Lingers & Other Poems Prosper C. ÌféányíTo All the Things I Cannot Save There is this story in the back of my palm that needs telling.About how I got a scar from trying to shield mother from my father's grip. I have been saying I don't want to...
At the Lake In Moncus Park & Other Poems – .CHISARAOKWU.
At the Lake In Moncus Park & Other Poems .CHISARAOKWU.Witness arc of bright red smears baby blue sky his flesh, his bones broken twisted–rendered muted flesh– of his mother’s fleshburned onto the retina of a– flattened into snapshots resurrected a–in...
The Softness Between Teeth & Other Poems – Veripuami Nandee Kangumine
The Softness Between Teeth & Other Poems Veripuami Nandee KangumineThe Sky and All That Blues I am just my motherwith my father’s face partially hidden in the dark my eyes skim over myself and I almost jump back thinking I saw you instead am I mothering myself...
Noah’s Ark & Other Poems – Linda Masilela
Noah’s Ark & Other Poems Linda MasilelaNoah’s Ark The hues of a dark nightAre melting beneathThe heavy hues of August winds.Our shack coughsRattling its innardsTo prove that it too lives.The corrugated iron has holes in itIn times like these we peep into...