/ In this place of colliding times, / No word for it in childhood,
and unrecognizable in this dusk, / Nairobi comes and goes. /
– (after Part II: Gray Latitudes , after Michelle K. Angwenyi )
We kowtow to the elaborateness of memory as its hinges beseech us-
this city understands the decorum of trysts,
the suppleness of Sandra McPherson’s ‘Lions’,
& that’s why in the muddy puddle you are the splash of a shimmer ;
So you have a seat, become the directory of a dancing moonlight,
& let us instead grovel the simmering of your veritable scars-
for its only a place priapic with the need for sublimation
that makes a palaver out of an occluding body,
that makes an incarnadine skin look scarlet ;
& so when a man about town leaves his penthouse
you go in and claim your own, for in this place courtesy is clearly overrated …
About The Author
Frank Njugi is a Kenyan. Writer, Page poet and upcoming literary Culture Journalist living in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the author of a Micro chapbook, BENTHIC (forthcoming Konya Shamsrumi digital editions 2023), with accolades that include; being a Sondeka Award nominee 2023, longlisted for the Akachi Chukwuemeka prize for literature 2023, shortlisted for the Ibua Journal continental call 2022 and a finalist in the Kikwetu Journal flash fiction prize 2022. He currently serves on the Editorial team of Salamander Ink Magazine -A platform that showcases Literary Art expressionism and culture.
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