Dike Okoro

JOY

What I feel in my heart
When I watch a butterfly flutter
To measure the wind.

WARS

I dream them
I package them

They stare at
Me from

My bedroom wall
Then fix me

A plate of
Questions

Neither Troy
Nor Baghdad

Has
Answered

A MOMENT'S PASSING

the prayer of the sea
is the miracle
you witnessed
before your birth.

the wind
licking your eyelids
is memory's tongue
riffing your blues.

Dike Okoro, a poet, critic, short story writer, and essayist, teaches world literature/African Diaspora Studies at Olive Harvey College, Chicago. He is the author of the poetry collection "Dance of the Heart" and the editor of "Echoes from the Mountains: New & Selected Poems by Mazisi Kunene."

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