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Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí

Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí writes from Nigeria. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun, AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, Common Ground Review, Mooncalves: An Anthology of Strange Fiction, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, A Pocket of Genesis (Variant Literature), will appear in 2023. He is working toward a BA in history and international studies at Lagos State University.

Poetry

Winter 2023

After the Laying

By Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí

This broken. That stolen. The body carves itself a place in every language—every song.             Where the fox feeds itself fat on the yellow blood of summer, I lay down my […]