David Ishaya Osu – 3 poems

           

Episodes

I

This milky bark                                                                                                                                 Bear tastes

II

Like dunes coursing                                                                                                                         To creeks

So do clabbers                                                                                                                           Blacken tooth and bone

III

Do not blue
Rays blunt our eyes when
We claw at grassy groins

Do not sheep colour                                                                                                                  
Their furs grey when sun bowls                                                                                            Grazing along dewy boxy roads

 

 

Diatribes

I

I keep a diatomic diary…

II

Diced tongues                                                                                                                           
When they sit in oily pans                                                                                                            
Do not give jealous scents

Fourthly                                                                                                                                 
Fowls’ orgasms                                                                                                                           
Fox their hunters

III

Slippery cleavages                                                                                                                  Swallow melting fires more

Than waxed throes and dust                                                                                                     Escort bloods into mists

IV

…because inside any todgers are tomes

 

 

Diary

I

Planted in pages                                                                                                                             Are pictures of my bare chest

II

The ribs parade the carcasses 

Soles to crown                                                                                                                                       Head to tails

III

Out of this nose                                                                                                                      Streams the smell of today                                                                                                                  The dreary smell of a bleached coffee

 

 

David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet, and street photographer. He has been published in several literary outfits including The New Black Magazine, African Writer, SALA (Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology) 2012, and awaits publication elsewhere. In 2011, his poem, Seasons at Peasant’s Palm, won an Honourable Mention for a National Poetry competition in honour of Prof Remi Raji at 50. He is an alumnus of the 2012 LUMINA Creative writing workshop. David is currently polishing his debut collection tentatively titled Rape Album.

 

 

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