After Nandini
take my boy to
your girlhood — -i don’t see
sentences and go i
see a garden without memory
but with
many pinks flickering — -say incense
is a memory builder and
you are a voice
bringing
tomorrow
back
from me
from waistlines
David Ishaya Osu (b. 1991) is a Nigerian poet. His works have been published in: Atlas Poetica: A Journal of World Tanka, Birmingham Arts Journal, Acumen Literary Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Watershed Review, Porter Gulch Review, The Bombay Review, Akitsu Quarterly, Ann Arbor Review, RædLeaf Poetry India: The African Diaspora Folio, Helicon Magazine, The New Black Magazine, among numerous others. David is a board member of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, and is currently polishing his debut poetry book.