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Yaba Left Review Issue One
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Two Poems – Ron Riekki
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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Two Poems – Olumide Manuel
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
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
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
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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Barren – Maura Way
Tonight, eat nuts, watermelon, and pomegranate with me. I want to feel them on the tongue of the longest day. I will read Hafez to find out what will…
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The Mad Professor – Nicholas Rono
Schools of thoughts,Pure liquid children of the mind,Behind glasses, pupils dilate as behind desks, students relax,Schooled beyond his sixty-some years,Grey hair all over his headHe calls it the exiled grey…
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Boloom Road – Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí
We stripped on the long walk. As if in a frenzy, we unbuttoned our school uniforms, undid our shorts zippers, and began pulling them off halfway to the Boloom. We…
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Long Live the Queen – Hassan Kassim
We have these walks, Abdelfatah and I. Began once a week, became once in 6 months, and lately, exceedingly infrequent as our days become more governed by routine—their onslaught more…
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