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
forgive me for the parts of you i’m yet to kiss by Ifeanyi Ogbo
"i used to think there was only one part of / the body meant for kisses, / but on your body I discovered a thousand places."
What We Agreed to Call “Snow” in Yorùbá by I.S. Jones
"Snow is a landscape of loneliness. // It returns to Earth if only to be touched a little longer."