1 on the worst of my days this body is a gimcrack-vessel no more than two lungs and a tremor nailed to salvaged wood 2 grief traveled with me across the Ubangi river i prayed love and all her cognates on the passage over: libet (to please) lips (to be needed) lyp (to beg) i […]
Tag Archives: refugee
Features, Stories and Poems
2017/01/17
6 Errant Thoughts On Being a Refugee | by Sarah Lubala | African Poetry
Features, Stories and Poems
2015/11/06
The Icebreaker | by Yovanka Paquete Perdigao | An African Poem
I. You are one of those introverts that fidgets way too much and, drinks too much wine to conceal how shy you really are. It’s not easy for you to connect with people, usually it takes a second meeting to come out of your shell and a third to really be comfortable around someone. But […]
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