Tag Archives: wordslanger

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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no thirst

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

https://goddessinspired.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/olokun-at-bottom-of-sea.jpg under the water looking up from the house of Olukun I will never eat from an empty plate I hold the rope the path is cleared I am in the water the water is my mother holding me in … Continue reading →

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skywriter

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

sometimes you look at your feet you think where you done walked you remember the holes you fell in the times you were underwater before you learned to swim you forget you are walking that the dirt remembers you you … 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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the house hustle made

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

this is the house hustle made born blessings due 101 in the shade rough rider striding through life behind the veil imperial no fade  the light in the house  hustle made instructed by the bones bottom of the ocean on … Continue reading →

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Old Men

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

blue black creased by living gin on their breath underneath the weight of the crush of being born invisible 5 dollar cigars and knowing in their mouths long eyes pained by memory grown in the shadows of years stacked atop … Continue reading →

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2014 in review 3300 Readers, Read in 89 Countries!

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,300 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

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The Death of Innocence

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

the innocence that wrote love poems and captured beauty like life could be kept fire-flied in a bottle fled slowly/ leaving pragmatism on the dresser in a shade of clouded jade there is little to say of love or beauty … Continue reading →

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Human

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

this is my body as god made me in the image of man human hued like the dirt we all come from complete perfect divine skin bones dreams interrupted intercepted impeded pressed into the service of others pressed like roughly … Continue reading →

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God as a Wild Woman with Stars in Her Hair

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

god as a wild woman with stars in her hair they told me god was a wild woman with stars in her hair i have seen such women sun glowing in their eyes wind pouring from calloused finger tips still soft … Continue reading →

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