Francis Annagu- A Poem

TRANSFIGURATION

(for a country)

Ploy us to

Other side of

The railway track,

Then shall we

Be proud of

This vinegar

Submission

To your saturated

Shoulder, when

Our swollen tongues

Like Sponges

Are stampeded by

A dark-lit train.



Francis Annagu have been published or forthcoming on Potomac Review, Tuck Magazine, Dead Snakes, Ancient Path Literary Journal, Ann Arbo Review, Sunflower Collective, Kalahari Review, PIN, Ayiba Magazine, Commonline Journal, Galway Review, WRR, Novel Afrique, The Poet Community, Bewildering Stories, and others. He lives in Kaduna, Nigeria where he is working on his first poetry book.