ANTECEDENT

For long enneadic nights have I kept wake
but in the wee hours of the day, Chukwu Okike (the creator)
smiled on my household
when you…

I feel it in the windy night enkindled by orangish kerosene lamps-
the fireflies adding leathery bumps to my abdomen.
It feels like…

Beneath the crushing waves,
I found myself struggling to breathe;
attempting to keep my balance.
My heart tumbling down my chest…