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Section 6

David Ishaya Osu

David Ishaya Osu
 
This is not a legion
 
This is not a legion By David Ishaya Osu if spelling was your profession, why didn’t you say the colour you saw in my pussy. I have said it & I will say it again: choir is a military school—the choirmaster alone has the keys to the thrones of mercy. so, tell me: who was Mercy to you? what is in charge of your eyeballs? what is your favourite hymn? Hymens? see, because we are manuscripts & trashpans or because this thing’s been diagnosed with that three-letter world banned from its skeleton— breathing is not for pour—up till midnight the blackboard refused to white, the story refused a new paragraph the storey refused to grow taller than a rain, see my body is my journey, preacher
 
 
 
David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet. His work has appeared in: Eureka Street, Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka, Birmingham Arts Journal, The Kalahari Review, Vinyl Poetry, Grey Sparrow Journal, RædLeaf Poetry: The African Diaspora Folio, A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, among others. David is a board member of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, and has been selected for the 2016 USA Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop.

 

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