March 2021

(After Dylan Thomas’ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night)   (for my brother, for my grown-up  J.who left for heaven, october 16, 2020).  chapter 1 sorry to say,…

In the land that bleeds we dare not ask the night for dreams Dreams, here, are not berries because They are not sweet, & many We wake the dawn with…

the man by the roadside greets the world with a song—enmeshed with a spice of pleas. his voice is a bucket of broken things. They all walk past him like…

(after Samuel A. Adeyemi’s Applying Psalms 121 to a Gentile) Few years ago, I commenced diluting my emotions, separating every constituents once a part of my being. I x-ray my…

MEDITATE Eyes close.   Inside my mind is a permanent place of dawn.   A sanctuary where I come to heal From the trauma of breathing.   There are giant…

you carry guilt like a stray bullet on your neck & with every memory of that day, pain replaces the colour of the element that finds a track beneath your…

  GNASHING OF TEETH SEA TO SHINING SEA: AFRIKANERS BATTLED AFRICANS    1. Across The Sea Beautiful Sea, Cataracts and Broken Teeth Are Scarified in Accra. (with thanks to the…

I offer my grief as an allegiance to this land where crows gather like smoke in a field of dead bodies. I offer my silence on the night of sorrow,…