Painting Time
I’m wasting colours, painting time, Throwing the pen in the air, Slicing okra in the orange-faded Kitchen, watching the...
Living Life to the Fullest
Last week, my sister and I went out for a walk and began to discuss our experiences at school....
Breeze of Redemption
On the hard ground she lay, A thing forgotten, left to decay, Her chest heaving up and down, Her...
Dealing With Girls: The Gaze
I stepped out of the bus and took a deep breath. At last. The first day of school. The...
Learning to Forgive
They used to live in my grandmother’s neighbourhood. A big, poor family of eight children. After the eighth child...
Morning After Mourning
A quiet appeal, whispering, waking, Attempting to relieve the self-inflicted aching, Heavy with sleeplessness, I reject any reckoning, Of...
Drowning in Sin
Her fingers stretched toward the disturbed surface of water. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Then,...
Inner Inferno
A blank page stared at me from the monitor. Thoughts pounded as they raced to put words together. Twenty-six...
