The archive Untitled (There I stood in the prairie) Poem by O. A. Jawando · 1982 There I stood in the prairie, a plane whirred north from south against a background of stars, destination maybe Chicago or Canada, maybe the North Pole who knows? A rabbit hurriedly leaped along north due east, I continued south […]
The archive Cactus needles Poem by Syl Cheney-Coker · 1982 I am the man, I suffered, I was there. — Whitman Strikers of Sierra Leone guided by your darkness when they put out the light the yokes of your shoulders, your mirrors that reflect your docility that kills with tenderness strikers when the streets give […]
The archive Midnight Baptism Poem by Christ Nwamuo · 1982 Ten years of artillery guns flexed in cannoned bazookas pound the soul, as reeking wounds, inflict a mind torn to calvary shreds: the filibuster at the senate for initiations I was escorted out of the ihu-iyi* baptism by okonko** in a cocooned darkness. In the […]
The archive Anniversary Poem by Samuel Asein · 1970 This dreary anniversary wakes me to repeat the stale tale of five cycles and riddles of eternity; am a sentry counting out misery in grains of sand: when our yesterdays are epitaphs and tomorrows unexecuted wills thrills and drills, and life a long and drab ballad […]