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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Praise Osawaru is a writer and (performance) poet of Bini descent. He is a Best of the Net nominee with works appearing or forthcoming in Blue Marble Review, FERAL, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, Kalahari Review, Serotonin, Sub-Saharan Magazine, and elsewhere. He was longlisted for Babishai 2020 Haiku Award and shortlisted for the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize 2020. An undergrad at the University of Benin, Nigeria, he’s a Virgo who loves strange/speculative books and movies/shows.
Poets Resist
Edited by Len Lawson
August 24, 2020
Edited by Len Lawson
August 24, 2020
We Breathe Dust Here
every inch in the room is a street of dead bodies
mother exited her mortal shell in the same room i breathe in
what remains of her rests in an urn
amid our ancestors [ the Idemudia’s]
this place sponges the color of the world
this place used to be home / asylum —
where we cascaded our bodies into bed
now bodies stream into a footed vase
living parallels agreeing to a swivel of pain:
life encases you in a shell of uncertainty
& concedes you cycles till you break /
& spill bits of yourself to soil the ground.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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