Our faces often resist admitting the sorrows they mirror: the burden of failing health and fragile hope, and the weight of unedited hopelessness.
DAN AKUSOBI · POETRY
Our Faces Often Resist
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Poetic interjections, prose verse, and lyrical reflections in the distinctive voice of Dan Akusobi.
DAN AKUSOBI · POETRY
We Are Still Here
We are still here, hanging on like thick skin. We have refused to kneel before the beautiful attraction of another life without pain.
DAN AKUSOBI · POETRY
Guess What We Do
To repay the loan of life: we pay again and again, just to deny vultures an early share of what must remain after life has left. We seal the graves with earth, leaving no feast for vultures or flies.
While we are alive, every effort to preserve life is also a preparation for leaving it. So we visited again to hear their immemorial chant: ‘Who knows tomorrow?’ Then they answered themselves with the arrogance of prophets: ‘We do.’ Their voices rose as one force, rhyming like a late verse: ‘We live now as if this were the end of tomorrow.’
These selections are drawn from the poet's historical writings and prose-verse work. More poems and lyrical interjections will be added as the archive is organized.