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Nnadi Samuel

Someday, I identify as a Prairie

52, New Poetry by Nnadi Samuel

Glory be to the improper plot: this acre of hand tilled hibiscus 
& the dying raven that slants midway, in collapsed grace.
I am thankful for everything that lays chaotic. jagged landmass. 
raked mess of depression, inversely proportional …

At the Mention of Grief: All Queer Confess

51, Poetry by Nnadi Samuel

Lust as corporal punishment, implies we kneel on each other for pleasure.
boy: a gadget I stomach on sighting my father watch me pull the least
non-binary stunt I’m capable of.

I— double-edged pronoun, perishable filth
Pa tells me— ‘snithe …

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