Victor Ugwu - Prachya Review https://prachyareview.com Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:36:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://prachyareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-LogoBlue-32x32.png Victor Ugwu - Prachya Review https://prachyareview.com 32 32 Two Poems by Victor Ugwu https://prachyareview.com/2017/09/29/two-poems-by-victor-ugwu/ https://prachyareview.com/2017/09/29/two-poems-by-victor-ugwu/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:38:34 +0000 https://www.prachyareview.com/?p=36433 We are cat (h)air   & sky
            every colour here
                 is
lemon & grass & street
                      on a girl's thigh

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Myth

We are cat (h)air   & sky
            every colour here
                 is
lemon & grass & street
                      on a girl’s thigh
there’s a way we carry god
       with scarf
& firewood
      we enter glass
       we become receptacles
carrying stories
   in our wounds
till we   all go to hell
       yes, wearing organs
& fitting   into tiny diamonds
     on the devil’s back
              we know the halfness
                       our body becomes
         with water
             &
fire & tiny little sexes
         tightening
    like zero point five
        millimeter copper
we know these things
    we
   know how we fold tongue
           to hair or
grey skin them
        so they shine angels

Photograph

father always
died & his skin
shone jazz with
mother’s clothes
knitting his body
into her nutmeg
breath i tuck
my hair into
psalm ninety
one listening to
my father’s
mirror scattering
on her chest
like some urban
egg breaking
into almond skin
i am in
my room calculating
how much time
he’d swell
today inside her
purple face
or burst in this
body full
of oranges
&
caffeine
About the Poet

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Victor Ugwu writes from Minna, Nigeria. He is a member of the Hill-top art foundation under which he published his first poetry chapbook “Rhythms”. He’s a contributing poet to the Praxis magazine, ANA review, Kalahari review, Eureka street and elsewhere.

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