Everywhere Hurts I do not know the music best suited for Persuading a sap-drained tree/to make Her leaves dance/to bring life to her bark. My
Fuck / Diacritics after Inua Ellams The florist, tiring of wilting its flowers, burns the forests whole. It’s spring again, & we
Anamnesis By an eye-shaped swamp; at the foothill of the Ogun river, wind whispers beneath the rocks. Our fantasies flare like dough in
All I Want After Homecoming I love how everything seems to Cascade into itself here. So that you Are wanting, but never wanting too
Small Horizons My father tells me if I spread my feet wide enough Its oars will touch the opposite ends of the third mainland bridge.
Where the River Says Goodbye At the base of the eighty-foot waterfall is Where the river says goodbye As canyoners trek through banana
I Dreamt Of My Father Today This is the first time he visited me since he left. In my dream He was sitting healthy on a bed But I
Coming Home Here is home where the hands extended greet meet where the arms outstretched embrace shelter. Here is home where my head and my heart
Niger Delta Elegy My father says: this is the water of my youth The water where I tried to trap fish in the cage of my fingers. The water
Ferocity of Grief there is nothing ripe enough for survival in this wasteland, only disaster culled from smoke wafting out of the bodies of