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I will Send Whispers to God

  • July 30, 2021
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I sit next to my mother’s raffia skirts, recounting the living bones and tracks of dead dreams. I linger along the pool to drink alongside the ferocious wolf on the…
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Between a Biology of Wants and Desire

  • July 30, 2021
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I am stuck between a biology of wants & desire, that I grow into a tunnel full of voices & echoes My first woman told me in my early age…
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To Catch Up With Hare & Stranded Prayers

  • May 30, 2021
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To Catch Up with Hare   Her sunken eyes are ships wrecked in a tempest of tears. I have no hands miraculous to help. & if there’s healing in sympathy,…
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Gravity Pulls a Leaping Boy and Drags Him to Death

  • May 30, 2021
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After Aremu Adams Adebisi   Gravity pulls a leaping       boy & drags him              to death how long before             a jump becomes a suicide      how long before a boy             becomes a…
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Mother’s Instructions

  • May 30, 2021
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Mother said, “never let your skirts go above your knees,” “Your thighs attract men’s hands,” “Don’t let your shirts show your shoulders or the path between your breasts, they cast…
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To the Freedom Fighter

  • May 30, 2021
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You do not spill fluid Burst a pipe To set it free. The freedom of a pipe Is its ability to deliver The fluid to the required destination. A kite…
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Supplication to the Ghost of my Grandmother as a Cautery for Drowning Kids

  • May 30, 2021
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i my mother sits on our threadbare mat languaging her thoughts into prayers. the lantern brightens everything in the room except her grief. she says to God; Ọ̀lùwà jọ̀wọ́ fún…
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Youth

  • May 30, 2021
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coffin is the wife     of grave we met ours under the siege     of darkness.   youth is a crime in my country. youth is the bride     of dust.   Lagos…
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You Are Not Alone

  • May 30, 2021
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i know your pains — cloaked and costumed in capsules of electronic smiles. if the make-up of our minds was plastic, you’d have broken into Warsaw pieces. & if our…
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Life Hacks for an African Child Born in the 90s

  • May 30, 2021
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a child must know what comes after a hard glare from his mother; one that becomes a brittle smile the very next second, a flicker that goes unnoticed, like NEPA…
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