by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | May 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
In My Hand I Hold Two Truths I make broth, feel odd wiping it off your face moments after swiping through bodies, preferences, dates. Sunset-orange forget-me-nots mar the napkin cloth I dab along your stubbled jaw. If forget-me-nots bloomed blood orange....
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...
