Glissade

I sit with the inconsolable soul of the dark— The voices of pleasure in the deep woods

Èjìrẹ́, Aráìsokún, ẹdunjobi, Ọmọ ẹdun tí ń ṣeré orí-igi. Ọ̀kan ni mo bèrè, èjì ló wọlé tọ̀ mí wá. You were asleep when you were born, in my hand, your reflection split into two. The men who were hired to forsake your silence brought drums & took you out to it. I looked back at …

Perhaps, you will discover what your daughters did with their bodies.

To escape from fire is to die by water.

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