Three Poems by ‘Gbenga Adeoba
Alterations “We have learned, like these birds, to publish our decline” —Jay Wright And, for you, it could be thissimple: the gesture of your body, onceattuned to the logic of touch, alert,formerly, to the world and the sum of its din.Or that, here, although the murals are madeluminous by the dearth of men, and the […]
Two Poems by Tade Ipadeola
Translation Islands For Cynthia Barton and Michael Moore When the earth broke into the realm of multitudesin speech and gesture, the gods granted one grace:That there be islands where the soul may healfrom maladies which meaning alone mends. The waters have surrounded these havensand fish and seals and prima-donna whales.To set foot on them, humans […]