Excerpts, Poetry

Deuteronomy or Book of Dust

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by Umar Abubakar Sidi

 

An excerpt from ‘The Poet of Dust’

in the pantheon of words

P         O         E        T          R        Y                 R           U           L           E            S

                                                                                                    in the pantheon of words

POETRY is the wind, the clouds of fragrance, the breeze, the breath of GOD, foul odour, the rotten smell of truth, the monstrous phallus, scrotum of the inner corridors of the vagina, luscious liquids, delicious meal, firm buttocks, inviting thighs, episodic fragments of LUST in love, the secrets of the aphrodisiac, the KAMASUTRA of words, the katap, the kitip, the kurup, the expansion of ambitious climes, the white teeth of the brown ZEBRA, the innocence of

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Two Poems

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by Michelle Angwenyi

dans la maladie

I came across it in my dreams and I woke up singing the French for it – dans la maladie, dans la maladie.
 A meshwork of metal
Inside the disease
 Becoming an illness.
 I saw it the next day and it was
 All over the place, in pieces.
 It must have taken more than strength to pry my eyes open and
 collect them, and once there, put it together again, paint it
 tell it to relax, try not to kill me.

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The Making of a Canon

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by Michael Onsando

 

What you are about to see is the creation of a canon. As with all creations, it begins with destruction. Your front row seats are free, they have been paid for, in full, by history. Time, again, is the title sponsor of this event. If you look under your seat you will find rose coloured glasses. They are there for those would not rather see what the act of creation entails. Every seat accommodates one and one only. In the theatre of dreamers every mind speaks for itself as every heart beats for itself. Please keep your cellphone on at all times during the performance. Be sure to take as many pictures as possible – the best of them may survive the journey. If you hear someone next to you talking, kindly join in the conversation – you never know how long you’ll have them near you.

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The Anguish and Vigilance of Things

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The Will: An Introduction to The Anguish and Vigilance of Things by Richard Ali

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Imru al-Qais

The poet is a grey eminence always sitting at an angle to the market of affairs, making notes, seeing everything, entering into every nuance in intercourse. From these notes come the poems, things distilled. The job of the poet is to agitate words so they yield their true core as does wine, to induce in the reader what each word is nakedly, that is, pure mood.

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