Poem: M For Man By Kofoworola Odozi
With feet as light and sole as heavy
With a sort of urgency
Like a pregnant woman
Who can’t wait to get rid of her belly?
Poem: The Light Between My Feet By Oluwafemi Babasola
Mother, I sing your lullabies when
the light between my feet goes dim.
They remind me of how you taught me
to walk my first steps in darkness,
POEM: THE GHOST OF MY FATHER’S FRIEND BY KALU AMAH
we lived in a house that belonged to a dead man —
my father’s good friend — who died a virgin.
at his death bed, he asked we moved in to his house.
his sepulchre stood not far from the garden