Abeiku Arhin Tsiwah
. . . sandstones have no monikers//wear the flag of your country//like a quipster
what is a country, a bile of waterfall
oozing from your father’s mistakes?
here in this country, it rains — it rains bloodstones —
tiny pebbles of cape coast wasting your skin
what is a country, a cousin’s fear
gathered under a bludgeon
a poet’s emotions crawling under a
tomato plant on a sandy field?
within a rock, fire doesn’t borrow its
name—it is transitory
on this thatch land, rainfall is a
catchphrase
what is a country, a moving train
from high inflation to high taxes?
Abeiku Arhin Tsiwah is a Ghanaian Smartphone Enthusiast //& Content Critic. He’s the Senior Poetry Editor at Lunaris Review (a Journal of Arts & the Literary, Nigeria) & the Creative Director at The Village Thinkers (a Creative Writing & Arts Society, Ghana). The 2018 Shortlisted Poet for both African Writers Awards /& West Africa Citizens Awards has had his works published in Afridiaspora, VisualVerse, Peeking Cat Poetry, Expound, Whispers, Novel Masters, African Writer, Agbówó, Tuck Magazine, Liberian Literary Magazine, Parousia, Face2FaceAfrica & elsewhere.