Deomba
Deomba (CO, atomic number 27) When the river speaks it whispers your name, when the earth sighs she heaves a body mother stutters when the tunnels inhale we hold our breath when they exhale the line on the…
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TASGUT BAS (Just Fall)
Tasgut bas (Just fall) To the child I have yet to hold, My heart stings knowing my first present to you was my absence. I never stop dreaming of holding you in these long nights. To look in your…
SABA-SABA
SABA-SABA I 31 killed in a nationwide protest. I reject the truth of what I see as smoke wafts into the heavens, rocks marching firearms in a protest against brutality, scars of corruption mapping the land and our bodies,…
Human Trafficking
FIVE DOLLARS I am not mine; I am Madam’s. She recounts how much I am worth five dollars every man I bed. A red dress hangs from these bamboo stems my life, my dreams, hang in merciless hands. I…
FIHANKRA (ENCLOSED HOUSEHOLD)
Enclosed Household Published Poem Y3 firi ha yi ara, / (We are from here) y3re kc y’ankra / (We bid you no farewells) nanso y3 nua ne moaa. / (but we are your brothers) To the world before now let…
OWUO ATWEDEE (LADDER OF DEATH)
MaMa The last words you held under your breath, your husband came to see you in your restless sleep, you failed to mention you wore a painful longing to touch and to hold what you lost, a sweeping silence…
“ANYI ME AYE A, NSEE ME DIN,” (BOORISHNESS)
Outcast. i blame the fates that began my course, a destiny shackled at first breath, born of a fleeting touch on a shadowed night, behind bars shiny in places where hands gripped, my thoughts turn inward, carved into walls and…
M’ATE M’ASIE (WHAT I HEAR, I KEEP)
Published Poem ‘Dare to be wise’ a gardenia breeds not in all hands, not everything is said. Wisdom is as mysterious as the rose-blue and as rare as the middle-mist red. Careful not to boast you’re wise, the walls…
AYA (FERN)
Shine, my crown. I sat on the floor between her legs. She gently combs with a hand that guides hair complex journey, running…