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Poetry (Ake Review 2019)

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Elysian

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
One day while you were tilling the ground, you found your mother’s voice buried in your backyard, in a glass decanter inside an earthen pot that

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For Marian Shaka, Osato Osaro & 24 Nameless Girls

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
I bet your ghosts were not stunned into surprise when bulging and lifeless, your bodies emerged from the sea to mourning: ‘who asked them to

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Strong men and flowers

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
Strong men deserve flowers too, To lighten up their day They too need to smell the scents of lilies and roses To colour their world Strong men

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Cultivated Flame

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
At 8:22 am, she sneaks back into her husband’s house like a thief in the night He meets her in the hall and pleads with her He tells her

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Black Skeletons

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
segregated. punctuated & separated. shelved in columns and deathly rows skeletons lay bare on a white page bound together –

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You Are Your Mother’s Daughter

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
When death becomes the first breath you breathe at birth, when your throat becomes familiar with its stings   when death writes your

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Ode on a Rocky Homeland

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
No one comes from where I come from No soul one single season on the soil survives And stays soft – snail-soft simpleton or dumbbell-soft Yes,

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A Queen’s Gratitude

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
If I rise up as many times, and always once more, Than I fall under life’s dizzying battles;   If I am able to smile in parallel measure, In

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Measurements

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
50 grams cocoa powder 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 225 grams plain flour ½ a teaspoon baking powder When we think of the recipes of our very

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IF ÒGÚN WERE HERE… (For Wole Soyinka)

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  • Poetry (Ake Review 2019)
  • Jan 17, 2019
A dystopian fuzz sprinkles an enticing scent, the kind that makes bedlam almost palatable.   But still we sing, march, hoping that the fog

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