this journey ends as an infinite poem
with leaflets from the book of Psalms, i create this paper boat, & add wings to it so i can paddle down the seas of time. the memories of…
Happiness is a Boat & The Plight of a Heart at War with God
Happiness is a Boat after Sadiq Oyekanmi’s “paper boat” v. death is fluid it will flow into every household someday and if it tries to drown you in its…
Dear Brother
(After Hassan Taiwo) for my brother, Ariyo Sodiq Bodies wrinkled into the hands of time, flung into different paths like the dispersal of birds at the throw of small stones…
Two Legs and other poems
TWO LEGS OR ДВЕ НОГИ TWO LEGS Two legs, And just one head on top, Has the shape Of a dog’s head. I can’t touch you. Your body is cold.…
a contrition to sanity lost & and love is a specie of madness
a contrition to sanity lost to drown a demon is to pour yourself into a glass of vodka, & finger john legend’s “all of me” instrumentals on a piano. it…
Finding the Thing in a Name
The cruellest of deaths is the voice locked in a box, or a name that can’t …
While Meditating on my Gehenna at a Coffee Shop
I search for my reflection in the muzzled eyes of the man across me. You are not here & this longing is ribbing its way out of my chest. I…
A Plague of Silence
a flailing child knows the gift of noise when water gobbles up his screams. faith looses its grip; snagged on ropes of morality, and God is known as the…
Diminuendo
Every writer I know writes about grief — how their bodies wither like feathers of a bird slapped by famine, how they kangaroo pain and cheetah their cheeks into the…