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Benin

Everything, Issue 30, Poetry

SELF PORTRAIT AS A LONE MIDNIGHT STAR OR A EULOGY FOR BESTIARY by NOME, EMEKA PATRICK

• There is uproar at the back// of this poem //which = i am a roaring chariot//= there is a tragedy// in this prologue // •• This story begins from a place of bloodlustgave my body to a butterfly or she gave// her body to me// an agreement sparkled with a matchstick// affection first prayed […]

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