LETTER TO MY UNBORN (by Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize 2013 2nd runner up Julius Bokoru
dear daughter/son, thank your stars
my father's soles weared
like a locus'd yam
swimming through the choking dust
while he trekked from ikibiri to yenagoa
the prodigal sun lashed at him
more than the state grammar school
teachers did him for arriving late
man and slate appearing like mud moldings
to