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,…

the voice trails you like a second shadow. except it’s a passenger of the wind, not the outspread ground, & so it breezes into your ear. like when your roomies…

Dusky mortar, mother of black mortals With a beauty, akin to the rose petals She sighs, inhale – a balm of affection She, a daffodil in a summer’s twilight That…

Let’s sing tonight about the hibernating stars, the grudging moon and the grave silence of the skies, in high-pitched staccato, in chortling language of memory – childhood, to say: “God…

Ask these questions Ask these questions to the wind that carries a leaf floating gently in air and settles on a pavement Ask these questions to the sun bathing the…

prancing around the crumbled walls of Gwato, we searched for answers as dripping red torsos leaked questions from men on transit. 3,650 days after the carnage, & these refugee kids…

(A tribute to all widows) As cloud houses rain And soil slurp every drop My heart caves the pain Of Khalid’s death The thirst for love Hits the floor of…

Of the tragic yesterdays Were toxins in the atmosphere Sores in the throat Veils across nostrils Stains in the blood From the wave of the unknown The stranger who enslaves…

Last year quivered us into barren climate, voluble longitude broadcast thick situations across our lungs, we shapeshifted from fragile maggots to calibrated caterpillars, thirst for freedom trapped in our throats,…