Fire-songs about my brother as a tape of absentia- Reality made me cruel. Outside my body, is a burgled door – my Red bright flowers crashes with apricots. My mouth has abridged The distance of the wind. A sea has practiced it’s drowning. Fire Has cocked my neighbor’s room. I take a sip of…
Litany of A Broken Sacrament; How I Carry My Brother’s Sins I shall rewrite my heart into my eyes and squeeze out a whole river of tears, sprinkling more than a thousand drops at the visage of heaven or anywhere synonymous to the presence of God. Behold, melancholy is a taste, clinched…
“Shades of Bliss” by David Nwafor is a collection of sixty-four poems that delve deep into the human psyche. The first thing you notice is that it is organized into themed sections, and each section is like a journey through different aspects of life, like identity, resilience, love, and self-reflection. In the section on “Identity,”…
I write to you; you holder of our broken pieces I begin this poem with the theory of how men Sing the songs of grief and hold our broken images together, So when this poem gives birth to the storm Mother was the first to sip the snow, strangling On the whirlwind of…
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…
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