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Sights on Saturday

  • November 29, 2020
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One vision. Six doves. Green sated cosmoses precede, Orange wastelands. I have seen this picture somewhere. Who is in? Who is out? In whose mind do these events remain afloat?…
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Defining Overwhelmed

  • November 29, 2020
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Oblivion beckons again, like a can of beer dripping in chill sweats, after a brief elevation of my encumbered soul by a fleeting lightning. It’s all dark and I can’t…
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How You Wear Your Skin Like a Hymn

  • November 29, 2020
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  losing its melody. This time the music is a stream in another mouth, but isn’t language like molten metal? A name is a shifting reflection of what frames it:…
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A Bridge that Leads to Nowhere

  • November 29, 2020
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  A BRIDGE THAT LEADS TO NOWHERE I am a father again, and one day My son, Isaiah, says “Daddy. I want to be a man” stretching his gum “Oh,…
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Some Verses of Wisdom, & Tonight I Shall Cry My Soul to Peace

  • November 29, 2020
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SOME VERSES OF WISDOM After reading Mary Oliver   Some random days, I just sit out there in the balcony, watching the trees and listening to the birds chirping, whistling…
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I Want to Sleep Nigeria Away

  • November 29, 2020
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  i want to sleep Nigeria away shut out the noises in my head blur out the drama in my heart but how do you shut out the portrait of…
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Love Aftermath

  • November 29, 2020
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What’s Love? Can I do without? Leave the heart sober, I’ll make a red hot spring at where the tributary was Something for tourists, in the aftermath Had to pick…
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Sadness in my Bone

  • November 29, 2020
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  Sadness in my Bone Geraldine, we should visit the beach often I believe mama’s ghost lives in the current of the wind __ it gallops across the ripples like…
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Warri of No Worries

  • November 29, 2020
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Blue and white painted tricycles, Loudspeakers blast Wizkid and Mr Eazi in cosy corners where virtue is easy. life is easy here, money goes faster than it comes, but not…
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Still Moments

  • September 29, 2020
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  FERIAL MOHAMED Busyness is a ghost school. Hurt disappears in traffic but does not vanish. And then a thread swoops through the metal eye. A still moment of missing…
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