I pick them anytime I bend down You cannot imagine the combination of rice, bitter leaf and celery In the mouth of an honest man . My hair stands on edge when a snake slides by Makes fanta smell likes baby’s shit In Senegal where Senghor gave me an award for playing Noliwe And rubbed […]

Giraffes can bore holes in your papers You are always on my mind Nurturing the weak, moulding the image Cemeteries like libraries are silent Chocolates do melt in winter. In China ,my clothes are hid, Perfumed with ON,sitting on ears Hanging the pardon rosary on neck on Sundays Shrugging off tags like ole, barawo ,thief […]

love knows nothing of loving or fireworks. words parade like maidens choosing suitors with tales like these battles, scars, memories in Libya Liberated my love for mountains. If i fall a prey And drown in the Pacific. Like Jonah and the hungry fish. Love will spur me out. Love knows nothing again and again Leonell […]

if we clap and howl silently Mountains may clear out patched pieces of throat What then shall humans bargain with? Today, raise these hands as unto heaven Imagine fallen breasts rising, singing collapsing and quaking like loud laughter The omen resides not inside glittering lies Wine intoxicates. Tonight my soul surrenders Singing along with the […]

Dirty tiles slide men without extra heads. There is a place where elephants discuss men. They talk of Ivory as a king. Memories dance like earthworms do in farms of salt. They have scales, fragrances and signatures. When time snails through an isle of death, Cold elephants share warmth with women. Women conceive men, elephants […]

if i ever get to pray as if i believe in God I may begin to disbelieve like i believe that even is odd i believe i can be awed and disbelief may make me flawed but it’s my belief and so be it why the body surrounds the spirit and the soul is trapped […]

A lie is a lie forget white or black It’s easy to cherish something you bought A happy person is not without lack That there’s a white witch and dark witch sounds whack Just as the news is part of a big plot A lie is a lie forget white or black When you’re in […]

that is how to fall in love the first time when we don’t know for sure how deep we’d fall and we would know how far we’d need to climb. some may fall like an embattled enzyme too beaten and broken to walk or crawl that is how to fall in love the first time […]

There is a wall of wax closing your ear You cannot know until it is too late But you will forbid truth like it’s a curse Don’t do this to win or to get famous Do not go too fast or too slow. Oh! Wait, There is a wall of wax closing your ear Silence […]