Adagio for Knives
By Prosper Ifeanyi & quite frankly I myself thought God hurled a hand on the road to cause this much panic on a hundred vehicles— & He said: not me, I have no hand in the making of pale daylight & jagged roads. & I believed him. I believed, for once,...Trawl
By Adeniyi Odukoya Trawl The girls choose their shells and conspire to milk the cosmos. With large barns, men the age of my father trouble the water for gold, fishes, and fillers in tune with the earth’s impulse. As depth bites into the cast fishnet, an offering of...Break-Up Instructions
By Dami Ajayi Break-Up Instructions We do not need an intenseCourtroom drama to let me go.Let me fall to the groundThrough Gravity’s fingers,Like slippery China. So much for favorite crockeryRendered imperfect by factory errors,Factual terrors! We do not...
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the ocean waves whisper to my naked feet
ANGOLA
To escape from fire is to die by water.
