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...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
ELECTED For safe keeping they split the truth into manageable pieces. They hid some between silence and promise, let it grow to myth. Hid some between action and contrived headline changing its shape. Hid some between hearing and interpretation,...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Blue Whale (Natural History Museum, London) The mandibles look like the tusks of some gigantic bull elephant bagged by hunters posing for a photograph in pith helmets next to a tent and a wind up phonograph. I reckon the Titanic’s...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Keep Going Aldgate had its usual smell of dirty metal and coffee. I jumped from platform to carriage. I squeezed beside a Tate Britain poster, clutched the grab-handle. When I chanced a glance, I saw I was the only one standing. Everyone else was...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 22, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
mercury rising we groan as the mercury hikes climbing with the ball of fire the Hot Weather Warning surrenders its flag feels like 40 and it’s only May Day we survive in gasps between air-conditioned bubbles like goldfish the elderly populate...
by Kobi Essah Ayensuo | Apr 21, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Portbou After Mary Jean Chan Reminded of my body by the climb I feel the sun, its love and anger, a baked red brick rubbed on the back of my calves. Hiking in a binder was a shit idea, My lungs reach to surface, come short. There’s a sweat mirage...
