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  May 2022     2 years ago

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Painter Envy

I praise the gift, the sublime fever

 that urged early man, early woman

 to enliven ashen rock

 with self-portraits and hunting scenes.

I praise the gift of hands that seize
the embers of the everyday
and flare them into art.
Transfixing in...

– by Missang Oyongha

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REQUIEM for Ikeogu Oke



 Hunter-gatherer in the forest of words that is life
from the lush acre of your mind
where euphony and metaphor prospered, you brought us profound tubers of meaning,
frothing wine gourds of elation,
truths snared in...

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A Grammar of Lagos

All cities yield their grammar,
even Lagos, sixteen years on.
I have learnt the concrete nouns
of places, the conjunctions of bridges,
Eko, Carter, Third Mainland.
I know the chaos of pronouns
inflecting themselves at bus stops.
I have heard...

– by Missang Oyongha

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