(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) Loss after Ted Kooser’s “After Years” That Eve, I saw you with him, & the yellowing leaves slowly dropping off the trees. From here, the…

(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) Bullet /ˈbʊl.ɪt/ ––noun A ball of lead or other metal, used in firearms of small calibre; now often conical. Typography. A printed symbol in the…

(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) promise is another way of drawing                   bloodlines. & in my country, we all have a way…

(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) the haircut I must have been Samson in a past life. I bristle each time steel greets the half-moon of my scalp, and this unholy…

(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi)  — for the waif child. I see you     poor puppy     the way you sniff the dump      the pile of abandoned     used-to-be treasures seeking for…

(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) Through dense mist, semi-settled and semi-adrift— sedimentation of lorn sentiments line the inner wall of my heart. An imprint carries cracks but does not pulverise…

(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) when the windows open, as lashes part round and round turns the washing machine, dusty dreams rinsed away from memory. flickering on lens as dust…

(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) Tonight, I moisturise my ankles with tenderness & crawl into my past through the mouth of memories.   An ocean of tears is not hyperbole…

(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) do not follow the sun when it sets you don’t know what will enter you, the sky will change while you’re gone.   day’s mouth…