“Now Silently As” by Lana Bella
NOW SILENTLY AS December sun appears a mile up the hill, jerking its long, thin chain like a penance. The fourth-pint weight of you husks into center of bones, too slender in the treachery of snow...
View Article“Saturday” by Lana Bella
SATURDAY I traveled, next, to the echoes in the throat, bare so as lingua of ghosts. Lozenges warmed the lips slowly spun, staccato daggered down with a grand- stand of teeth, cast off like skin in...
View Article“Deserted” by Johnson Victor Oluwatobi
DESERTED What artisan will work on my oval head? Shaped by hunger and sunlight, Who will listen to my tears Echoing the tone of the bereaved, My round-shaped lips Laughing hysterically at my...
View Article“A PROBE INTO THE MASSACRE OF SOLDIERS IN METELE” by Hussani Abdulrahim
A PROBE INTO THE MASSACRE OF SOLDIERS IN METELE —How many were they? dust upon dust upon dust —Who were they? all had loved ones —How did they die? in my dream/ his son was swinging on a swing hell! he...
View Article“Age” by Lilian Owino
Age It is at this age that I know I am old enough Old enough to walk “in shoes that are too big for me” Eat “food that the grower labored for to get peanuts” and Sleep “in a shelter the builder died...
View Article“How to hurt a thing” by Mobolaji Olawale
How to hurt a thing 4. Hurl stones at itHer made-up face is a plate of festering soresIn my mouth, she says I grind my teeth into pieces of rockShe says when I call her names, the words strike herLike...
View Article“Like Goodbyes” by Michael Emmanuel
LIKE GOODBYES ONE Before we broke up, he took me to Mercyland – the famed bookshop. The air could freeze bones and the doors slid so easily I considered them imported. Two young men and a lady attended...
View Article“Queen Moremi’s Life” by Oluwafemi Babasola
QUEEN MOREMI’S LIFE Moremi was a beautiful princess of Offa. She married Oranmiyan the then Ooni of Ile-Ife. Bush people were consistently invading, carrying Ile-Ife’s inhabitants off to their Kingdom....
View ArticleSharing Good News from Praxis Contributors….
MEMOIR IN SONNETS, MEMOIR IN LYRICAL PROSE Please join us in congratulating two Praxis Magazine Online contributors, John L. Stanizzi (USA) and Abigail George (South Africa), on recent book releases...
View Article“Notes for My Daughter” by Maryam Gatawa
Dear Daughter, There is God. He is the Existence and that is the Truth! So let me start by saying do not be like me, daughter, be better than me. I am but a hopeless owl singing day and night. I am a...
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