An Origin- “We urge the Sudanese army to respect the ceasefire and its conditions to alleviate the suffering of innocent civilians. We also call on the international community to intervene and put pressure on the Sudanese army to abide by the terms of the cease-fire.” [CBCN] There is a firestorm in Khartoum where…
I heard the goddess, Themis Left the Circle of sight, To smell out all amiss And utter what is right. I read the goddess, Themis, Fortified her arms To raise above violence and peace, The scale beyond conditions and terms. I watched the goddess, Themis, kneel To make for herself a heart of…
Calling God’s Mobile Phone- Today, I boil my adhan in a kettle And the steams whisper supplications Effervescing through the ladder of pestle-straight Prayers into the ethereal coliseum. To elicit an answer, I wash myself in an ablution from every sinful act—crawling down into the crippled squat of an orison, rosary beads gliding on the…
“Boy, beyond the prison of loss” – For Josh The day breaks on my lips like sour prayers, sour agbalumo bleeding a thirsty tongue, and my hope wails in wonder. It reminds me how much thirst fills the Earth that it gulps many souls every day. Somewhere in this poem, A boy stands still…
Fear is the first injury- Who are they? Are they human beings? Or are they truly spirits as many people in my village claim? One of my uncles swears that they are. Even Gogo, my sweet grandma, tells me that “these things are spirits”. Spirits? What are spirits? They tell me that akaka are…
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