Synonyms
Roseline Mgbodichinma
you
never arrived
splendid in your red dress
without trouble for me
- Lucille Clifton
never arrived
splendid in your red dress
without trouble for me
- Lucille Clifton
A dream & a barrel of lies
Life spilling over,
fire,
In my intestines.
The type that
Cooks up a feast.
Tell me,
Is it ceramics or cervix because joints are breaking
Is it ovaries or over because a body has lost to pain
tubes or tribulations because a cycle has spiralled
into relapse?
becoming is
both dream & a barrel
of lies
life keeps spilling
Into an overflow
Keeps running
us over.
BIO:
Roseline Mgbodichinma is a Nigerian writer passionate about documenting women's stories. She is a Nairobi fiction writing workshop (NF2W) scholarship recipient. She was shortlisted for the Lagos-London Poetry Competition funded by the British council and the Isele Short Story Prize. She was the third prize winner in the PIN food poetry contest. Her work has appeared online and in print and are published or forthcoming in Poet Lore, Agbowo, Isele magazine, Swwim, Native Skin, Down River Road, JFA human rights Journal, and elsewhere.
Life spilling over,
fire,
In my intestines.
The type that
Cooks up a feast.
Tell me,
Is it ceramics or cervix because joints are breaking
Is it ovaries or over because a body has lost to pain
tubes or tribulations because a cycle has spiralled
into relapse?
becoming is
both dream & a barrel
of lies
life keeps spilling
Into an overflow
Keeps running
us over.
BIO:
Roseline Mgbodichinma is a Nigerian writer passionate about documenting women's stories. She is a Nairobi fiction writing workshop (NF2W) scholarship recipient. She was shortlisted for the Lagos-London Poetry Competition funded by the British council and the Isele Short Story Prize. She was the third prize winner in the PIN food poetry contest. Her work has appeared online and in print and are published or forthcoming in Poet Lore, Agbowo, Isele magazine, Swwim, Native Skin, Down River Road, JFA human rights Journal, and elsewhere.