Three Poems
By Richard Ali Hunger Hunger is to reach arms across the sea, there’s a distance Over which words will not keep, excepting formulae Like fish and dream and surrender. I’ve[…]
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Three Places
by Peter Akinlabi Oshun Who now remembers the dance from which she emerged, with dual prize of royalty and sadness? Maybe the king-dancer himself, towering above all memory, a[…]
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What the Wayfarer Wished to Become
by Emmanuel Iduma Failing to daydream a life of transcendence, a certain wayfarer found himself at the mercy of his ambitions.1 The first goal he set for himself was to[…]
Three Poems by Kolade Ajayi
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[…]
The Cabals
By Kolade Ajayi. The cabals are not only the Lawanis; They are well bribed out of it. The cabals are not only those who are entrapped, Though they await[…]
Three Poems
By Richard Ali How Wild Horses Die A braying in the ear, the scratch of pen on parchment The heat of radiating blood boiling earth in a shimmering Of[…]
Three Poems
By Hajo Isa Bird Eye Your courage is sure, I watch you swoop and twist above The receding skyline. Carelessly you glide, Leaving the sweetness of stolen heaven.[…]