Category Archives: place

At the Berkeley Flea (NPM 2017 18)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

scribed in their blood

by ancient rhythm older than

the city they drum in Continue reading →

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arrival

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

here because this is where i find myself carrying bags packed by dead people brimming with faint possibles twisted among rude impossibles bag on my shoulder song in my heart i have come to draw me on impossible tall singing … Continue reading →

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a final dream of flight

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

i have a pen i have written my own story i read yours it was narrow sad predictable on so many levels it did not predict my flight i wrote it over the text offered i spoke it softly looking … Continue reading →

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here/there

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

on the border it says here/there can you get there from here of course can you get there from here with a little effort movement is possible or stillness if it is not here maybe it is there what used … Continue reading →

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