Two Poems by Nnadi Samuel

Before we gave it some English

Things of cul-de-sac come in a round phase:
black orb, wearing a Nike stain,
waiting for some English—to spin
the glyphs: a keeled font, a schwa 
rebent in a sound.

A coyote howls to these letters
till we give it some English
guttering home a sibilant
saying, we can now storm the street,
without sustaining our gifts.

Forest Maths

Dawn in graphics:
a girl refusing to repeat her skin.
raw light greens me
this much piety to sun

I attend the wild reserve
stuck to a cylinder & inhaling
I have seen absence become a metaphor
while time sorts the almighty

And I'm elsewhere, happening

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Poetry
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December 9,
2021
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3-minute
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Nnadi Samuel

Nnadi Samuel is a winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writers 2021 (University of Louisville), Lakefly Poetry Contest 2021 (Wisconsin), the International Human Rights Arts Festival Award 2021, and Canadian Open Drawer contest 2020. He is the author of "Reopening of Wounds" & "Subject Lessons" (forthcoming). He reads for U-Rights Magazine and tweets @Samuelsamba10.

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