Tahlequah didn’t know she had an audience while in mourning. She didn’t even know that she’d been named Tahlequah, purported to mean “two is enough” in Cherokee, and also J35,…
in the beginning, everything shape-shifts into grace, into harmony. all the prayers made on my bodybecame roses sprouting on my fingertips, on my palms. you see, my twin told…
but once, after Sunday service, she heard the sexton say that there are places where the dead traverse a river after death, paying a boatsman to ferry them across the water.
After the killing of cows and herdsman in Enugu Prelude: [In the storm / the brief branches of lightning / stretch like the jagged edges / of a torn map…
