Poetry

SELF-PORTRAIT AS A MUSEUM

Museum: a depository of grief displayed aesthetically; I carry the mishaps of things I want to forget like the fragments…

5 months ago

Dietary Positivism For Dinner

It is well with my soul. It is well like a soup.

5 months ago

How do you say the knife is blunt in Yorùbá?

we say the knife is dead, or the mouth of the knife is dead because the death of the mouth…

5 months ago

Sweet Tea, No Ice

  It must be that imagination has an expiration date. My grandmother will never change the amount of sugar in…

5 months ago

Disappointing Fruit, or A Tempest of My Own Making

I wake to another dream of ripening Becoming perfectly palatable For all who want to eat me whole. When I…

5 months ago

In All Things

Say it straight. Say how the grasses wave you along your path. How the small nod of the field mouse…

5 months ago

‘The Enemy’

My father says, with a laugh, I don’t see color. He doesn’t say it while looking at me.

5 months ago

Her Ghost

I wear grandma’s collared shirt— it mostly hangs on a blue hanger in my closet, fabric continuing to thin with…

5 months ago

I began with listening

sound of shattered glass whiplashed mother in her long dress muscles tightened one summer night

5 months ago

Ambit

Say the ambit of Italy is the sea, you rather find your way back or your way finds you back.

5 months ago

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