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Lit Mag · Poetry

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Pollen

  • October 22, 2012

By Benson Eluma   O Virginia, possessed Of the instinct of a plant On the riverbed, this body Knows not the symmetry Of the oar passing, but shivers With the[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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Five Poems

  • May 12, 2012

by Alkasim Abdulkadir 1. Stoning from Glass Houses! The took away our lands And built glass houses They took away the stones So we won’t throw stones At their glass houses.[…]

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Lit Mag · Poetry

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Two Poems for Omalicha

  • March 31, 2012

by Benson Eluma   For Ify Omalicha Who now to carry on Your dance of beatitude, Lead the chorus In the return movement?   Your strings have suddenly come Undone[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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Notes on Obscurity

  • February 12, 2012

1. Sister Mustard died someplace Mount Ebola, I think, in Africa. They planted a mine on the headstone For a curious little boy to play with.   Kaboom! and his[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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Three Poems by Kolade Ajayi

  • February 12, 2012

The Bomber Drowned THE BOMBER TOO DROWNED, in his ripple Among the heads, at the belt’s attunement to rage, at the last dead chant– HEAD TO THE SCHEDULED FEAST ON virgin demons; breaths–[…]

Lit Mag · Poetry

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The Mannequins

  • January 30, 2012

by Benson Eluma Claire, now they make the mannequins with long legs They give them huge buttocks and big breasts But they leave their lips thin and their noses aquiline[…]

Culture and Society · General

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A poem of Lagos

  • June 1, 2010

SUFFERING AND SMILING We hold these truths to be self-evident: That where there is a child There must be a cane. That before you make ends meet There will be[…]

Culture and Society · Politics · World Affairs

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Poem: My Brother, The Jew

  • March 5, 2010

I’m working on a collection of poems investigating hate, fear, and loathing: Under the banner of peace and brotherhood, my body to be scattered in bits in the noisy, sudden,[…]

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