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By Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan
(Twitter: @tunde_adesokan
Instagram: @toondayatkins
Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan)
—Situationetik
After Stuart Mcpherson—
Situationetik / or the way my soul / ensconced itself / in a capsule of ethics / & echoes of situations / that cannot be undone // hum me into a poem / I will frame you into an ancient line / that murmurates / through strange verses // Like a univerbation / i collocate into a single word / swarming irretrievably to make meaning // The flight off of birds / the approaching feet that startle / the sounds of crickets / the rustle of lovers' bodies / the liver cooking melatonin for bedtime love / while lovers' hearts flower / relentlessly across or against / the pull of the moon // The burden of knowledge / that sinks us / deep / into each other / into this swarm of everything / of how microbes inside you / build you / of how muscled efforts of yours / was loving to the fabric of my skin / denied or benign / rhyming with the breath of the night breeze / towards or against the scalable / of impending catastrophe //
—a story grows a man—
before the womb
a boy lives with shadows
before the tomb
names are sacred chains
to ancestors
a folklore dog calling
to its moon mother
death barks all night
but we still wake
to a dawn
where particles of stories
fade us
where burdens hunch
our back
where stars vanish
from our hopes
where lovers morph into
liars
& debtors beggar creditors
into
recovery prayers.
where a man becomes
a bad loan
to a story that crumbles again
to bury him
About the Author:
Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan (Toonday) writes from Oyo State, Nigeria. He works with Firstbank.
He is a lover of poetry; a lover of everything that breathes poetry. His works appeared / forthcoming in Pangolin Review, Wales Haiku, Ethel-Zine, Shallowtales Review, Stillwater Review, RoadRunnerReview, Lucent Dreaming etc.
Twitter:@tunde_adesokan
Instagram: @toondayatkins
Facebook: tunde.w.adesokan