Author Archives: Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

About Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

I create; therefore I am.

promise

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

hands raw from work dedicated to writing their future carving a space for tomorrow to stand with rusted teaspoons in a land of bulldozers tenderly caressing the unborn future seeding it with possible in winters that refuse to end assuring … Continue reading →

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wind walker

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

the wind at your back wraps your coat around you pushes you forward or lays you low the wind is ever at your back it will not rest so you can not time running behind the wind spilling away minutes … Continue reading →

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juba for the teaspoon

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

there are things you know inside without being told the soul remembers it knows what we push down forget but you know the things that are not a question fever things burning inside they are the scent of flowers you … Continue reading →

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Horse Eaters

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

born singing outside the graveyard only a whisper a way from share cropping two generations up from cotton no way home no way forward of the wandering tribe of the newly freed owed nothing owning nothing determined to survive they … Continue reading →

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the song of the horse eaters

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

singing in captivity is not a sign of happy slaves nor is dancing which may occur almost anywhere grace in the storm may be hard to understand may not always be seen as divinity holding hands with resilience what do … Continue reading →

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The Question

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

can you keep your shoulder to the wheel knowing the harvest is not for you dressed in flesh you will reap in the grave the future you feed may never feed you the horse eaters land is gone the children … Continue reading →

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The Horse Eater’s Children

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

i can only go back three generations ten generations is your pantheon of ancestors i am short six generations i can only go forward maybe one day I can go back across to the other side of the graveyard in … Continue reading →

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Child of the Horse Eaters

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

  I am a horse eater I am dungeon seed my pantheon divided 6/10’s  on the other side of the water 4 generations walk after crossing the graveyard in the ocean exiting doors of no return I have not returned … Continue reading →

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Hunger

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

  The Babalowo said: if your grandfather is a hustler the son will be a businessman the grandson will be a beggar. I am the hunger refusing to beg on the road I build roads to other places my hands … Continue reading →

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12. 26. 15

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

red cloth tales & miracles abound I am on the bottom of the ocean walking the bones with Wilson we follow the 1024 a solemn pantheon grandparents great grand parents we walk where they walked how they walked great greats … Continue reading →

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