Excerpt: Sea Stories and Other Poems from Contraband Bodies by Jide Salawu
Sea Stories I have no stomach to keep sea stories. Ten thousand boys are crossing the black Atlantic without life jackets. In Thiaroye-sur-Mer, hundreds are wading through the butane eye of the Mediterranean, flailing in the brine. I confess there is no hierarchy of those rushing out of a country’s flame, hiding under the tent […]
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Sea Stories I have no stomach to keep sea stories. Ten thousand boys are crossing the black Atlantic without life jackets. In Thiaroye-sur-Mer, hundreds are wading through the butane eye of the Mediterranean, flailing in the brine. I confess there is no hierarchy of those rushing out of a country’s flame, hiding under the tent […]
