By Nurain Oladeji Download pdf, mobi, epub
At the threshold where land
Provokes sea, waves birth
Ripples of looming uncertainties-
Soil, water, and other
Clashing realities of time.
Lured to stay loyal
To memories of air, lungs, gasps,
Heaving chest: antidotes of death.
Alligators ditch condoms,
Tactlessly slithering through life’s asphalt
Making multidimensional love,
Orgasm starts on land, ends in sea.
I live by words of a map
And compasses’ tantrums,
Dawn and dusk are distractions
Day and night are shifting sentries,
Not a single magician unclogging
Wound up time.
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Nurain Oladeji lives in, and writes poetry and short fiction from Nigeria. His works have been published in chapbooks and web literary journals. He hopes to live in a perfect future where he is published writer, a teacher, and a farmer.
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