Few things had ever caused more excitement in Mbutu community than that of pleasant, good-natured Kenechukwu who abandoned his woman during the throes of childbirth and vanished without a trace. The […]

The Stripped, in sixes and sevens
Let slip the notion
Of paddling their own canoes
Seething with ill will
Yet crippled by shame
They only gape as their dreams
Are spirited away
By Dream eaters
Who in […]

MY LAST LEG

On my last leg
Rotting away and nearly severed
From the stalk, I ponder
On my flesh’s final fate
I brood, heavy of heart
For terribly shall I miss
Its sweet fragrance, the flower
Its […]