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...
What We Are Has No Name & Other Poems – Ohia, Ernest Chigaemezu
What We Are Has No Name Ohia, Ernest Chigaemezu What We Are Has No Name he reads from a poem he had written hours agoas they walk past the hostels that had some of those big willow treeslining the university streets the other boy is smiling& dreaming...
All the Sounds of All the Things & Other Poems – Joseph Omoh Ndukwu
All the Sounds of All the Things & Other Poems Joseph Omoh Ndukwu With the Murex Fishers and Dreaming of My FatherThe murex fishers repaint their ballads onto the sky. Out of the sand pores, they emerge fingers first, whispering to their nets, for good...
Old Story in a New Wine Skin & Other Poems – Ebenezer Agu
Old Story in a New Wine Skin & Other Poems Ebenezer Agu Old Story in a New Wineskin (Adaeze) Archetype is the study of an old story in a new wine skin,a sequence jumping centuries to perch on unsuspecting witnesses. Across time, we’re born of this...
Two Poems – Amanda Holiday
Two Poems Amanda Holiday Poem for Nesyamun ‘Bed/bad’the voice of Nesyamunglottal frogged otherworldlyuttering 3000 years wayback ‘bed/bad bed bād bĕd bad bed’bitter tobacco bleat of muted cursebelched vowels blunted by rag andbone and time and deatha...
The Anatomy of Silence & Other Poems – Dami Ajayi
The Anatomy of Silence & Other Poems Dami Ajayi The Anatomy of Silence What do I accept from this silence,this silence that lacerates peace,this silence, anathema to bliss. This silence, pensive, dramaticamping tension, wrecking intention,this silence, violent and...
the tiger’s bride – Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
the tiger's brideKhadija Abdalla Bajaber The moths, they sup on my sorrow,my mineral-rich grief, they come to announce that the rains are coming. He says that the hand was created twice,twice to seek, that like an innocent he had only come looking for his...
Children of Assata Freestyle & Other Poems – Deshawn McKinney
Children of Assata Freestyle & Other Poems Deshawn McKinney Children of Assata Freestyle whether or not she did i wonderif we should. // an idea, in it an apple and tree, a...