April 2016

I sit down on the edge of the bed
With my father on the opposite
Pretending that the television
Is not glaring […]

i’m sitting on a bench
waiting for the train

a man sits next to me
and compliments my
purple shoes […]

Body and Steel That evening at Ojuelegba, a loaded container fell from the bridge above, and crushed the body of a Hausa merchant beyond recognition. I also felt nothing at the first telling by an […]

I forget the Czech for “stamp” in the post office and start making up words instead the number of times you must say any name out loud to make a spell of the sounds: reporacle […]