At Elmina Castle, I Bleed & Other Poems – Sarpong Osei Asamoah
At Elmina Castle, I Bleed & Other Poems Sarpong Osei AsamoahAt Elmina Castle, I Bleed I climb like sea saltUp bedrock bigger than the moon, I swear.My feet clomping upon the sacred grey.I want them to hear my coming, my dead.I lift my head and concrete is not...
There Is Fire in His Woods – Omodero David Oghenekaro
There Is Fire in His Woods Omodero David OghenekaroWho has believed our message and to whom has the arm of Godbeen revealed?– Isaiah 53:1 Speaking of roads that gasify intoLimbless staggering dreams midway down themMemory constrains me to the...
What Once, We Something Like Had, Or Thought We Were – henry 7. reneau, jr.
What Once, We Something Like Had, Or Thought We Were henry 7. reneau, jr.1. I watch the stars hide behind the Son of man– unkind like all the beautiful sins of the world. The sin-phonies of corruptionlike desire aroused to swarms of mosquitoes or locusts. The virtues...
The Ghost of SX MPhil – Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
The Ghost of SX MPhil Kanyinsola Olorunnisola“I stand at the threshold of cyberspace and wonder, am I unwelcome here, too?” – Essex Hemphill I’m dying all over again & this time, there are no rooms for me in cyberspace, so I carry my trauma elsewhere. I call my...
Two Poems – Yasmina Nuny Silva
Two Poems Yasmina Nuny SilvaSurviving, one way or another 16/01/20 - 21/02/20 ILuanda - GCM The sun hasn’t yet risen when you open your eyes, though the cocks have been crowing stubbornly for you to wake upwith the rest of your compatriots who are already on their way...
Lost Mourning & Other Poems – Maya Lewis
Lost Mourning & Other Poems Maya Lewis Lost Mourning the burial: no more than dirt on chest; i, we cry tears for ancestry lost:goto their place of rest(if you can find it; if not your backyard will do)burrow...
Gathering of Spirits & Other Poems – Umar Abubakar Sidi
Gathering of Spirits & Other Poems Umar Abubakar SidiGathering of Spirits During my first trip to Cuba, in 1944as a child, I observed that different orders of realityappear to disturb the dreams besetby the Orisha and ancestral spirits of African origin A painter...
to my friend dead – Adenike Akande
to my friend dead Adenike AkandeOf all the bodies to be put out of motion, it should not have beenyours:wire-beanstalk traipsing thoughts like giants descendingearth to confound it – me.Otherwise I would scale your form into your house findingprecious and tacky things...
Ukombozi & Other Poems – Zafrina Nyawira Muthoni Njenga
Ukombozi & Other Poems Zafrina Nyawira Muthoni Njenga The Silencing There is a child screaming in an apartment not far from minebut all children scream, I am 22, I have learned this, I am silent.There is a woman screaming in the road, the road just before the...
Two Poems – Daisy Odey
Two Poems Daisy Odey Colour Riot A black swallow stains the grey-blue sky,Orange dragonflies’ tumble in the air,Three fluorescent lizards fly pastdisappear into the future. Two brown boys in a cornerProd a brown bird’s corpse.Over their head, a brown roach,slithers...
Gaana & Other Poems – Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
Gaana & Other Poems Henneh Kyereh Kwaku playing god in old love skin tonight we rehearse, again –you're godi'm the boy whose postersdance in the wind the boy whose black facein the pictureon the posters makes him a crow you, god – have giventhe crow...
Two Poems – Adedayo Agarau
Two Poems Adedayo Agarau A Poetry Cover Of Billie Eilish's No Time To Die in Which I am Ghost Haunting My Father's New Home But tell me a story that did not begin with love. — Aracelis Girmay i watch my mother's sea eyesas everything settles in the turbulence of her...