Fuck / Time by Innua Ellams
“The universe in fact is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man” — Inua Ellams
Why Our Body Sought Asylum in Water-Genes by Emmanuel Umeji
"genocide. at least, what births us should kill us genocide" — Emmanuel Umeji
A Flock of Birds by Saddiq Dzukogi
“Tears / irrigate my anguish until anguish opens like a seedpod, // and there is only fragrance.” — Saddiq Dzukogi
poets of distant planets by Ifeanyi Ogbo
“find out if they’ve ever knitted poems comprised only / of loose strands of sadness, / or painted ballads of overflowing joy” — Ifeanyi Ogbo
What We Hold by Ugochukwu Okpara
“held her hands / instead / and asked why / now why keep a thing / so heavy away / from me” — Ugochukwu Okpara