Tag - poetry

Poetry by Ojo Taiye

Beloved, if I titled this poem Yenagoa’s Black / Market, will it bring back my mother’s son? / How long before we...

Unearthed

There’s tar on our hands, / asphalt, pitch, / that carbon-black earth stick / only oil can soften, / then soap. // It...

A Flash

A B-2 Bomber’s lazy hum metamorphosizes / Boom! Flash! A port town leveled / By a pencil drawing of atoms on a notepad