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Ebuka Evans

Path of Thunder: A Continuation of a Long Trail of Stubborn Men

                                                                                                                                 “be gone apprentice,
                                                                                                                           i left my gong and stick
                                                                                                                                 at the sacred grotto
                                                                                                                                        of mother idoto
                                                                                                                                 for you and your ilk
                                                                                                             for generations of town criers”
                                                                                                                                         —Chris Okigbo
 
bodies swirl like birds     caught in cardiac arrest on flight
ninety kilograms of camouflage and ammunition      cause dust to go to god
like hot air balloons        & in a mini space above oceans and sea gods
i invoke a little deity with cornstarch in his breath     his words powdery, sugary
this bare I stand in a stony grotto     crackling with old skulls and empty femur
remember when I fell at Opi     as sacrifice at a crossroad    to please the gods
of confusion.      the spell calabash is clasped by an angel-ou in this grotto where a bird begins to ascend
 
a body rises like splashes of water       unity lies in the fall    a ghost as black as tar
lays flat on the path      carrying sojourners on its belly     a water body feels good      (immune to grenades)
wet breath with a fear for suction pipes       & deserts.

Biography

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​Ebuka Evans is a Nigerian poet. He currently studies English and Literature at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Déraciné, Third Coast, Rigorous, 20.35 Africa: An Anthology, and elsewhere. Find him on Facebook @Chukwuebuka Evans
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