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JUMOKE VERISSIMO
Jumoke
Verissimo lives in Lagos, Nigeria. She has published her works in The
Guardian, Ashes and Diamonds, and AIA link. She works as a
sub-editor with farafina-online, in Nigeria.
DUPLICATE
Traces
of you
now couch
-ed somewhere in my colon,
everyday.
Leaving
incorporeal trace
floating, meandering, swimming
into my sanity,
-exit-
You
left.
then came back to
live the marks you left here,
in my head and on my feature
I’m you.
SENSUOUS
this
one tingle,
this strange stroke,
this spine-tingling gestures
this touch.
that reminds me of reasons
I should rip what I hate, slow
-ly
DIVORCE
we
parted,
we met,
we parted,
we met,
we parted
we met,
and melted in memories.
LOVE BITS
Glass
splinters scattered on the floor
Several images mirrored in fragments,
Every part of a whole, in a pieces hold,
Whilst searching for the Self in a broken fold.
MEMORIES
I
mourn for the gambol smile,
the gambols smile?
smile!
smile?
ethched in my heart stolen from my mind.
HOPE-LESS
The
time is 9.00am, and it’s another day ended
I see nothing but blackness in the brightness,
The sun is so-so-so dark.
copyright © Jumoke
Verissimo
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