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What the Sea Keeps
A poem about the Atlantic, about the things the diaspora left on one side of it and the things they found on the other.
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Lagos, Unannounced
A fragment about coming home after four years away — how the city recognised me, and how I pretended not to recognise it back.
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The Aunties
A prose poem about the three aunties on my mother's side — the ones who raised us collectively, and the specific smells each of their kitchens had.
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A new piece in the collection “Small Hours”
First Light
A short poem about the hour before the city wakes — the quietest time I know in Lagos.
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