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Memory mocked us. Thrust a long lascivious tongue through the chiselled slit of a viewing window. Beyond the mute stone wall the lone…
“So crossing the river and walking the path we came at last to Kumasi.” – Kamau Brathwaite Prologue: The merchant Did he arrive at sunset’s…
I. Sunlight slithers, insinuates itself, amid preening palms. Likewise, I goad my serpent to rifle lady’s “bird’s nest”: I don’t trifle.…
Dream at Graeme Hall by Lawrence B. Bannister My love and I elope to lands of sweet imagining where dreams have no beginning, no end, as…
(for Kamau on his 70th birthday) at seventy your voice soft drone balanced with quick guitar pick finding notes no one heard or knew. you…
I feel a thickening I’ve felt before A denseness growing at my core The calling of a wooden floor I feel a growing at my center A heaviness…
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