ETCHINGS ON A CARVED SKIN
OKOLO CHINUA My heart holds many locked rooms within, rooms I cannot open I walk the stairs of my memories each time I close my eyes It’s soaked, dripping… A…
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On Black Street: Waterholes & Wildlife
MARTINS DEEP caution: a photographer must tread gingerly filming only with lenses positioned at the corner of his eyes. on Black Street, the walls are cartridge papers bearing paintings of…
BLIND EYES
ENITAN ABDULTAWAB In a sick relief I guess Would I sit back and watch it all? A pointed stick that would pierce one’s eyes Is to be avoided while it…
THIS SON OF A FOREIGN GOD
ADEPOJU ISAIAH GBENGA (I) Dear Son, When the gods asked me who you were, I said; You are like a hawk that flew to the land of doves And when…
STILL BORN
IKECHUKWU IWUAGWU It is of futility a foresight To relate the Africa’s giant future site Her rind, six decades to be very soon Had witnessed shades of pogroms under the…
THE WILLOW WIDOW
ABUDU-BHADMUS OMOLABAKE My little window has become my companion The only proof there is a world beyond my deep agony: The green field contrasting the dark hole I’m in. My…
WALLS OF LONGING
SAI SABOUKE Today, again, I wake up — a truck Contemplating which highway to take. Though aware I am that all the roads Lead nowhere, my feet, carved To re-walk…
A BUS RIDE HOME
MURTHADHO SOHFIYYAH It was the 19th of March 2020, three weeks since Nigeria confirmed its first case. With only twelve confirmed cases at the time, the panic and fear were…