David Ishaya Osu was born in 1991 in Onda, Nigeria. His poetry has appeared in Transition, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, New Coin Poetry, Poetry Wales among numerous others. He is a board member of Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, and he has received a Pushcart Prize nomination. David is currently the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel.
After mammiwata
sun day’s overture: the potion
of a pink cloud
at eighteen
glittering inside her future
—you can memorize your
lemon grass
scent, because
your window is always
open. see, centre is
enormous as you & this
silence is a foreshore
coming
nearer to
the lifetime of
a message sent by telescope—inside
the storm is about
a book refusing to open
at page nine
where midnight starts
a party. love keeps
her maiden name
& the journey
to narcotics. a broadsheet
the size of your garden, have you seen
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
Love is not love
love is not love: some of you will have
your darkness drinkable: have the back
yards got any cologne different from
a girl reciting the sizes of shadows before
tasting a song to match: here is a story
of closets: two birds found a city by
a plum tree: the journey has no smoke
Friday is for you and me
through a glass
orange: as it
feels with silk
dress, time every
side of my body
is a new fruit
today, you &
me take the
sky to bed
& say nothing
but you & me
today na today
Family
every light is a ghost
—the woman made all of us
look front / milk reaches
everyone amazed—sing
to your distance, bird
yellow came out
of the family &
you & me touched
All the time
one sound, i can touch
the world around
you—apple top
come to me
all the time, hold
my silence in
your mouth, hymn
that space: it is just
you and me
waking
dead
lilies
—take the shower / transparent
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