by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured, Prose
Surfing Light If the third grade taught any ideology, it’s that fighting back is futile. A boy, curiously named Majestic, had just finished shrieking in my ear, removing the grasp on my face from his sticky fingers. The noise bellowed like a saw to my...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Uncategorized
Play Dead Chronic fuck slug Chronic floor sleeping Chronic fist seething Chronic food swallowing Chronic feuding skin Chronic foreseen surrender Chronic failure synonym Chronic sel(f)-inlictednes(s) Chronic found inner-piece(s) Chronic...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 28, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
How Much For This? Your body hangs like a dartboard. Clothes snake the slippery floor ready to bite. A curtain holds you back imperfectly as a Tetris block. This is the first time you have been out in three weeks. Today sits like a joker between...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 27, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
New Year Fog The garden shudders, brushed with ice, its edges slightly blurred away by cloud unfolding over the grass. The sun just doesn’t want to try to bring the day into the world, preferring to hold its watery eye half-way closed above the...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 26, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
CW: Car accident and loss of life. Death Knock. A fen road took them, sometime in the early hours, when the mist hung over the muddy dykes and the reeds sighed with grief and the handsaw lifted, on solemn beats of its grey and shrouded wings. They left...
