How to Define a Country

i conjured this pain that rephrased
the destiny of homes.

I called myself a synonym for pain
and rain that commute an unborn child
from the blanket of the mother’s womb.

let me narrate this story of a sleek boy
from the north, that drank the blood of his mother
to quench his thirst.

another blue boy in Zamfara memorizes
the principle of raping young girls
as a way to cultivate the seed of his farm.

here, men are known to be narrating stories
between the women’s thighs. 

and drawing a line on a paper is another way
of saying stealing in a cemetery is a rite.

like birds we learned how to run,
how to mourn, and how to enter the room of kisses.

like stars—night brimmed our smiles as we
enter the sun. and sun rays remolded the bridge
of air that fiercen our noses.