Like termites around a mound They gather on you Soldier-ant men and women Expending energies until they wane Above your...

Innocently, the clock sits still like a studentThe second’s hand ticks past the minuteThe minute past the hour. Guiltily, the...

She stares at me, with laughing eyes like a Gypsy, there's a halo of tears above her racing heart, she...

Honesty. This is from a familiar place; Girl revolts against herself, Manoeuvres beliefs holding her in place, and hands boy...

(Port Harcourt, January 2016. For the fear of “educated militancy” in the Niger Delta) 犀利士 The price I pay for...

By chance, you flew as time and tide comply a dance of wings in colour-strangled air like sails of ships...

Of what use is the pen when the ink is dry? Why should I hide this pain when it makes...

Yesterday a bare land stood Beneath it, a zeal the future dares Today a castle springs from its shoot I...

Sometimes we need the riverbanks to break                 To know how tame the river has been                                 As wild floods...

Tears, tears I cannot c­­ry yet tears, tears that cannot dry burst my heart, my broken cistern and paint my...