A Light Between Us & Other Poems – Patrick Sylvain
A Light Between Us & Other Poems Patrick SylvainA Light Between Us I kissed your left eye,Your gaze morphed into starlight. You squeezed my right hand,Silence slipped between us. The last rays of a reddish-yellow lightFiltered through gray river birches. We...
Echoes of War: Poems – Hera de Jesus
Echoes of War: Poems Hera de JesusArmed Homeland In memory of our heroes, holding ballots, chanting hymns. We mourn you, Mozambique. Clenched fists, we tear the veins of this land, crying for justice. each tiny moving change. a breath. We no longer sing. The sun of...
Nine Poems – Ondjaki
Nine Poems Ondjaki Translated from Angolan Portuguese by Rui Martinho1. in the morning, before the world,things always look simpler.there is a tenderness in the word dew;the pigeon and the cock greetin a slippery come-by.moments drip andtick the hours away.in the...
A Selection of Eight Poems РV̩ronique Tadjo
A Selection of Eight Poems Véronique Tadjo Translated by Alani Rosa Hicks-BartlettYou have broken the mirrorin which you would look at yourselfand you don’t recognise yourself anymoreYou don’t even knowhow to write your own nameor what your voice sounds like ...
Ndege Wawili Tena, Two Birds Again – Mohamed Yunus Rafiq
Ndege Wawili Tena, Two Birds Again Mohamed Yunus RafiqI always found him sitting on the stairs outside our house, burning the dry fallen leaves of the red flame tree in the middle of our cooperative housing in Arusha town. I would sometimes sit with him, watching as...
Here Come the Portuguese Women РJọo Melo
Here Come the Portuguese Women João Melo Translated by Cliff E. LandersRTP International, commonly known as RTPI, interrupted its normal programming to transmit live video of the demonstration by a group of women in Lisbon who demanded the Portuguese government pay...
Such Long Nights – Laeïla Adjovi
Such Long Nights / De Si Longues Nuits Laeïla AdjoviHow do you photograph the act of waiting? How do you make pictures of separation, expectation, longing? How do you shed light on one of the hidden faces of international migration – the wives in waiting –...
Water Birds on the Lake Shore – Precious Colette Kemigisha
Water Birds on the Lake Shore Precious Colette Kemigisha It’s the day of the ReNaming memorial parade in Home Land. Magic balloons three times the size of watermelons, drift in and out of white clouds miles above my head and change from red to yellow then to black....
The Journey – Fatma Shafii
The Journey Fatma Shafii What do you do when you earn your first pay? Abdi thought of saving the cash until he returned home so he could buy the things he and his mother didn’t have. He thought about getting back to school, but two years had passed and he wasn’t sure...