“I embraced a world hostile to my survival.
Without complaint,
I kissed gods who loved without desire,
who desired without love”
Fringe Woman & Other Poem
Beah Batakou
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku“…I am glad that the night still enters
my house. That blackness sees me and wants me
seen.”
Comorbidity & Other Poem
Akosua Afriyie-Hwedie“Abortion is against the will of God, and they could wait, this man, this family. It is not God who put the baby inside the belly. Surely, someone else must answer for the blood. Surely, someone else must answer this will of God.”
Kofi Konadu Berko“Afia, i’ll gather my friends like dirty harvested yams
We’ll go to Osu and listen to young girls weigh dollars
in their waist”
Afia Ansongafter Marlon T. Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’
“brother to brother
their bodies bound in motion—captured still
every movement trapped
in evergreen joints”
Kwame Boateng“They say they see it in the way I stand... And so I walk past the hut and each step is a hush, a benediction almost.”
Seyram Klu De-Souza
K. Asare-Bediako“i remember a girl who is a window, yet always returns to herself with the wrong keys.”
Richeal Barnes“The honey has turned viscous, black. When held to the ear, it mumbles the names of towns erased from the maps.”
Alhassan Mohammed “Somewhere a mother and son do not know whose tears wash down their cheeks”
Henrietta Quarshie“But no small hunger can constitute the eating of naked birds; dead wings on plates like butter on ceiling..”
Brian Gyamfi“this is the secret to tickle God in the rib for another gift. penance is our own way of blessing the ear's lip..”
Gabriel A. Mainoo