David Ishaya Osu


 

David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet. His works have appeared in
 publications such as: Birmingham Arts Journal, Atlas Poetica: A
 Journal of World Tanka, Tipton Poetry Journal, Watershed Review,
Undertow Tanka Review, among others. David is a board member of

 Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, and is currently polishing his debut
poetry book. He is obsessed about anything poems, pictures and plays.

 

 

 

 

MIRACLES

jonah lived in a fish
and he didn't die. david
ate my vagina and became
god's beloved. mary slept
with an angel
and gave birth
to technology.

he kept
climbing sin
ai to see the faeces
of god. her daughter's
menstruation caused a firefly
party. the girl had all
reasons to finger
her bible. even
a sky has
no win
gs. his
son had
no balls so
he became a
woman. a woman
sold her hair to buy
a
man a
moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMPOSITION

composition: the sun and the
moon. lick,
lick, lick
click a belly
button that says
open, open, open
no December in this
girlhood in
this house
is a bar code
bankrolled
with red
paint. a group
of cameras trying to
catch the black
spot on a
white satin scarf. the
toy becomes
a firewoman
in love with ebony.
nothing is tornado. jazz
has the formula
for your death







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

yesterday was sun
day of orange
juice--but dreams
do not rest
on sabbath days, or what
excuse has a
line crossing
margins. schooling
has stopped; now,
everybody is studying their
hearts in
their bedrooms
--jesus and the two
thieves have won
the presidential
election