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Category: POETRY

CAGED DOG DOESN’T BITE (a poem by Chime Justice Ndubuisi)

A sad dog in an animal shelter waiting for adoption.Watercolors illustration

They eat the meat I killed,
I eat the bones and laugh at them

Published November 9, 2021
Categorized as POETRY

WHAT BRIGHTON SAYS ON A SUMMER EVE & IF LAGOS KNEW (two poems by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema)

If Lagos knew, it would change, if only for one moment
to breath in deep in awe of this nativity
Bethlehem slept but Lagos hustles on another sunny day.
And as another placenta gets buried
Eko’s beauty is crafted in the sound of another infant cry.

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

ÈKÒ (a poem by Jamiu Ahmed)

in this city of crowded histories, where hurrying feet run after
the skyline like a masquerade chasing a lunatic over a pilfered naira note.

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

A PORTRAIT OF PORT-HARCOURT(a poem by Nket Godwin)

where is the rainbow i often found
in the sky of returning lips
oh port harcourt whose pots are courts
where meat arbirates fingers

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

sọ́kà (a poem by Adedayo Agarau)

in another room,
we found femurs
the latitude of
suffering

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

MONSIEUR PARISCOPE & FRESCOES: FLORENCE, DECEMBER 1989 (two poems by Kate Meyer)

We stepped out from my
borrowed flat in the Marais, under
the Renaissance arches of the Place
des Vosges and the formalities of
the Hotel de Sully, into the squalid
modernities of far-flung banlieu
where a cathedral lurks amongst
market debris.

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

THIS CITY SHAN’T BE MY CAULDRON!(a poem by Olajuwon Joseph Olumide)

where is the rainbow i often found
in the sky of returning lips
oh port harcourt whose pots are courts
where meat arbirates fingers

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

A BOY’S CITY (a poem by Odemakin Taiwo Hassan)

a weird mix of pain and nostalgia latch on to my
tongue. this city moulded me too, in ways too many to mention.

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

CEMETERY & THE MAGIC AROUND HERE (two poems by Chisom Charles Nnanna)

Here, boys are men, and girls
are no ladies— no—they’re no less the man
who shoulders a house for a living—frankly. And
it’s no child abuse, it’s the hustle.

Published August 29, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY Tagged conscio

ADDICTIONS (a short story by Onyi Igwe)

“You are happy today?” I ask the girl.
She pays no attention, staggers to the desk and picks up the lamp.
“You are happy today,” I say again.

Published June 25, 2021
Categorized as cọ́nscìò, POETRY

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