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Three Poems - Zach Beach
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Three Poems – Zach Beach

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  • December 28, 2022
Praise the Light of Late October So soon we have reached the cusp of October where we trade in our apples and peonies for pumpkins and sweet alyssum. The outstretched…
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YABALEFT Issue One
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Issue 1

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  • December 27, 2022
The first issue of Yaba Left Review has taken its sweet time to arrive. In a sense, its appearance around the holiday season was partly intentional and aspirational. We intended to kill the tentativeness and tap-dancing around the launching date.
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Three Poems – Tares Oburumu

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  • December 27, 2022
essay on boat  in the oval of St. John’s Chapel. in the dome of his visions; in the form of ship or skew,  the times come. the virgins have been…
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Two Poems – Ron Riekki

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  • December 27, 2022
My Roommate Translated during Just Cause—lying on his bed, the darkness, telling me he had to talk, and I said to talk then and the crickets were gone and the…
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Three Poems – Omodero David

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  • December 27, 2022
Gratitude for What we have become                              After Sanam Sheriff For time & space whittled down to water  beneath our tender feet shaped into a paddling mechanism of movement and our…
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The Sharp Weight of Inheritance – Nnadi Samuel

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  • December 27, 2022
“I do not know if hurt is my birthright”— Jason B. Crawford knuckle withholds an English suffering,  clenched in fierce strain. my unsheathed hands, hurled spacelike,  knifing a worship. there…
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Two Poems – Olumide Manuel

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  • December 27, 2022
20.10.20 there are no rules except those against protests. the silence came for us before the bullets. every wound devours itself.  dark green molds in the lips culturing a system…
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Two Poems – Bruce McRae

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  • December 27, 2022
Cry Timber The arborist has gone quite mad. For every tree felled another woodland grows. He saws and saws, and there is no end to his sawing. The mills are…
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Three Poems – Chisom Okafor

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  • December 27, 2022
A piercing through the dark In the face of darkness, this secluded space is a pathology likewise to live alone in it. My heart keeps failing in bits, as the…
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Two Poems – Roseline Anya Okorie

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  • December 27, 2022
Roots Love grows in the evening  Dies at dawn    There is not enough prophecy about hearts How it can become vapor                          Fighting for space in the sky There are many…
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