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WONDERLANDS

0 Wonderlands by Chisom Okafor TSSF Journal

I was born in a place for old men,for boys feasting their way backwards into time.The priest swiftly makes an incisionfrom where he stoops to weave a certain birthmark;in secular seaculorum…I know boys trapped to birthmarks like seagulls to brown waterI know boys turned silenced men, still sutured to the mark of the beastI know […]

By Chisom Okafor
In Poetry

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