• LIGHTNING IN YOUR EYES

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    LIGHTNING IN YOUR EYES

    February 12, 2023 0

    First, you are born. Then you're doing your thing, maybe fetching water from a clear stream, the fish swimming around your a...

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  • UUHDEMÉ

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    UUHDEMÉ

    February 08, 2023 0

    Mama had a daughter, and she named her Udeme. Her classmates referred to her as UUHDEMÉ, because that was what her mother had wr...

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  • REMEMBRANCE

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    REMEMBRANCE

    January 31, 2023 0

    Blood leaked from me, red creeks crisscrossing a brown highway. The morning was quiet, unusually so. There was no pounding of ya...

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  • EASY IS HARD

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    EASY IS HARD

    January 31, 2023 0

    Easy is hard. Ask the ancestors. Women don't come cheap, food doesn't come because you planted and war doesn't seek ...

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  • HOT HOT HOT

    HOT HOT HOT

    January 31, 2023 0

    Hot. The air burns the lungs, the sky burns the head, the tarred road singes the feet. The eyes droop, the joints ache, the skin...

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  • THE UNWILLING

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    THE UNWILLING

    January 17, 2023 0

    She spat the words that brought me to life. Again. They say that life is a confirmation of hope, a surety of the triumph of will...

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  • TILL THE END

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    TILL THE END

    December 26, 2022 0

    I hear voices in my head. They’re not the same, They don’t sound the same. I know they’re strange and shouldn’t be there. They a...

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