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The brown envelope
The Brown Envelope I found the pictures because the printer at Excellent Photocopy on Ogunlana kept feeding two sheets at once, and I'd gone in…
ByJohn Paul Mangut
The Scale
The Scale The last thing sold before the shop closed forever was the scale, the iron weighing scale that sat on our counter since the…
ByChiefDivy
The Fire and the Wish
Who am I? I am a dream that refused to stay quiet. Not the dream they handed me but the one I found curled in…
ByIC_ Amar
Watering the Dead Things
The room learned stillness before I did, a held breath between four seamless walls. No door, only the whisper of plaster, the slow blink of…
ByIC_Amar
Tongues of Dust and Daylight
I speak for tongues the heavy earth has stilled, For names the wind has worn away to dust. Though every law and ledger was unskilled…
ByI.C Amar
Cry, thou Mother
Cry, Thou Mother? Cry, thou Mother—why dost thou weep? What sorrow bends thy noble brow? How came thy songs to mournful sighs, And joy desert…
ByOluseyi Ogunbanwo
HAPPY IN-DEPENDENCE
Ha ha ha My laughter erupts from within, Celebrating another in a country that has forgotten its own definition. Our teachers taught us: “A…
ByFasakin Fehintoluwa
DIAGNOSIS
We live in a sick world, and we're all patients. How disappointing! we tend other people's wounds while we bleed from ours. How ironic! we…
ByIC.Amar
𝘼 𝘽𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙉𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙬.
I'm much younger; I can't remember the year, and I can't remember the day either, but I can vividly remember what happened. My mom calls…
ByFrancis Ewanworie
The Beautiful Things That Nature Provides
The Beautiful Things That Nature Provides May your happiness never be chained To treasures that glitter and fade; For if your joy depends on possessions…
ByOluseyi Ogunbanwo