The Intimacy of Words, or a Better Way of Being
1 I got my first kiss at fourteen when I was in junior high. There was this classmate everyone loved. She was taller than most boys, so she sat in the back. I sat close to the blackboard—the…
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Walker-Stalker
Walker-Stalker “… And as he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and…” Babe, stop! What’s up, Honey? You don’t like the tone of it? I think I’m being…
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Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca How do you take a seed That sprouted in foreign soil That laid its roots walking across oceans Whose leaves first breathed Western winds How do you take it To its lovers’ land…
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Sketchwork
Sketchwork on your twenty-first birthday, you sketch nine different self-portraits at nine different points in your life, each named after a memory, and by the time you’re done, the rain…
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Come in if You Are Beautiful
Come in if You Are Beautiful Upon asking the administrative officer of the school I was serving in for book donations for a refugee library I was planning to establish as part of my personal…
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Three Poems
Existentialism [noun] [ ɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃ(ə)lɪz(ə)m/ ] a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence, focusing on the lived experience of the thinking, feeling,…
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Heritage n. ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒ
Heritage n. ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒA Compressed Dictionary (Select Entries) ofN. N. Edozien Ancestor [ˈansɛstə] noun 1. a historical figure whose blood “flows through my veins” and whose life I…
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(death is no parenthesis)
(death is no parenthesis) la. She sat still and asked him not to stir when she saw who was calling, and when he giggled, she asked him to shush, her face suddenly the stern glare of polished…
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Arrhythmia
The nights when those penetrable walls whispered to me, everything became hyperreal, like the moment after the seventh cup of coffee when the heart misses its rhythm by a nanosecond and the…
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