Saddiq Dzukogi is the author of Inside the Flower Room, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series (forthcoming in 2018). He was on the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize shortlist. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, South Dakota Review, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Best American Experimental Writing anthology, and Verse Daily.
July/Aug 2018
A House That Does Bad Things to Me
The universe grinds my body into a white horse, mushrooms down my throat, hands heavy on the door, through which same world came to be. I am inside the fire, […]