Kobina Wright

April 2013 | back-issues, poetry

We Are Burgeoning Like We Always Thought We Would For Our Individual Selves Seeking Truth As We Know It To Be, Surveying The Course We Surmise Each Should Go

Come here!

I’m not going over there!

Beneath The Dust And On The Shelves In A Warehouse In Wayne County Sits The Bitter Humiliation, Disconsolation, Nightmare and Violation of Thousands of Daughters; Dumped In Forgotten Boxes; Some Exposed To The Elements Of The Building

Folks were killed

while those men

ran free.

The Ritual Of Breakfast Steers Me To Coffee, Mostly For The Effect Of A Chemical; But Also To The Hunt Of A Singularly Wrapped And Seldom Stocked Chocolate Chip Cookie Held Together With Calories And Potato Starch

Why aren’t I

buying by the case?

by Kobina Wright

Kobina has written for publications such as LACMA Magazine, The Daily Titan, and CYH Magazine. In 2004 she wrote her third volume of poetry titled, “Say It! Say Gen-o-cide!!” − dedicated to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. In 2009 she co-authored a volume of nuler poetry titled “A Crime And A Simplification Of Something Sublime.” In 2010 she wrote a volume of nuler poetry titled, “50.”

Aphrodite’s Jealousy Lasted Three Lifetimes

April 2013 | back-issues, poetry

Hazel colored Kolmården,
a marble cutter,
showed me one morning.

That’s what her eyes,

looked like against nightfall,

when she begged.

“Save me,” she whispered,

as feathers formed,

and drifted in the same breath.

I exhaled smoke,

And watched,
galaxies vanish between our lips.

 
What about my concrete,
and harbored self,

led her to ask?

Which vials possessed her

to prophesize,

a messiah in me?

by Romila Barryman