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...
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...
