this path you’ve chosen to take may tear you apart, you will be tagged here as an African bastard. for we celebrate birth, marriage and death more then we eat, drink and dance for every other thing. I’m aware the world has changed, and there’s a new trend but this is not who we are […]

zoe, today you’ve eaten of my house; fed of my meat, drank much of my spouse. he has changed. he is strange. you’re welcome. you’ve made him this man he has become. because we are unafraid of change this tent you have pitched shall remain here. to your house we shall dare rearrange- feed, drink, […]

state it! rant and rave. tweet it. spill with an anger grave and throw it to the earth, make it quake. become a fit. drag your feet to leave marks that say today is not the day I fill another bottle with you. and when you’re done, allow me unbotton my mind to show the […]

it is the Eyo, the Ojude Oba, the Sango, the Olojo, the Oro, the Igogo, the Osun-Osogbo festivals. it is who we are and how we dance. it is the Ofala, the Iwa Akwa, the Aju, the Ovala, the Inne, the Egbo, Ekpe, the New Yam festivals. it is where we farm and when we […]

keep your head in the air and let the thoughts weigh in soft and hard, rough and smooth. your heart should be in the shelf with blood and water with oil and earth let sin find its sun. let your color be true whether yellow or blue choose a side be hot or cold. in […]

Egypt (Kom Ombo) where we were molded by writings of gods when they were men that carved stars to align their paths. Italy (Tiber) a fence placed in the center of our sweat it formed art and married our inks swelling the chimes that sleep with our deaths. Syria an inscription of laws guiding the […]

the beauty of writing is to write on paper with a pen where mistakes have a limit. it is pouring your heart without keys suggesting to one to change words, structure, tone or tenses. it is the choice of a bird to fly during rainfall, it is the choice of a writer to express freedom […]

let us trade, my friend. not in coins or in notes. let us bend, let’s pretend to drown and see who floats. i’ll be rich today and tomorrow be poor. let me taste the wealth they say would leave me wanting more. i’ll like that you suffer and fall like i have. befriend lack. crawl […]

nulliverse a. i have a life to garden; I shear my overgrowth. trim my excesses. weed out unwanted parts of me. tend and open my vegetation to sunlight, to rain. to seeds. to loss. to feeds. to dung. and all. kinds. of animal. and plant. behaviour. if. i must. b. in this prayer, i do […]

chameLeon to those poems who take the shape of everything, bleaching everything the color of itself, meaning one thing and another else and another more. part war, part truce and a friend becomes an enemy who becomes a recluse. when the 36th looks like the 54th of February in and out of time. one becoming […]