his lover’s chest
broad and flat but bursting at the seams with love
Faiza: (smiles) What about me do you think of?
Arinze: I think of your bushy brows and your big eyes, your lush skin. And your smile. When you smile, it is like the moon.
On the road, you will see them: Brittle boys whose bodies are cities of grief.
Perhaps it was the imprudence of human thinking, but when the young priest had tagged
I am that leaf that’s desperate to leave the whole branch, the whole tree not
i say manual & rebellion rocks like a storm in my mother’s mouth // she
*First Runner-up for the A.O. Ejesu Poetry Prize with The Muse no. 48 Journal. Hope
Sir Eriata Oribhabor is a prominent Nigerian poet, essayist, editor, social commentator, literary activist and
*Winner of the 2021 Eriata Oribhabor Pidgin Poetry Prize, The Muse Journal. I go buy
The 2021 Literary Arts Festival which held on the 25th of May, 2021, at the