Author: ap

Back Bush

I stepped inside, the aroma of the air filling my flared nostrils; it was a combination of mangoes, something floral like perfume, and a dash of myrrh. I walked through the house under the warm orange glow and watched as you threw your heels off your feet, and our heights equalised. You unclipped parts of your pink wig and reached for the zipper at the back of your dress.

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Two Poems

KEVIN REIGH black apollo / head cornerstone I remember the blistered petal whispers of your lisp a slingshot seeking the smoothest stones a sniper peaking out from a parapet your slick words and syllables thick with the sulfur...

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No Gods

NIGEL ASSAM Those are not gods, but men, in ships passing on the horizon. No need to give praise, or offer sacrifices to the sky or to the sea. Waves won’t roar in anger, no deity lives under them, no god will thunder...

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Ablution

KAY-ANN HENRY And where have we found ourselves yet again? at the mercy of the land the air the water. I could run, but either way the sea is rising. Best we can do is use what will be left of the land— a palmetto fan for the...

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Passover

Daddy used to be a dinki mini chairman himself before the heart attack. (People sey is bad duppy kill him.) He praised the ancestors when Courtney bawn. He never complained when she chose gerreh over dinki. “She’s a leader, Peadove,” he prophesied, “not a follower…”

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