African Romance is a narrative poem of the Poet personae Mallama’s lamentation about the abandonment and neglect of her husband whose sexual escapade is fast ruining their relationship.

It’s more of a lecture on endings, actually: “Not every poem is finished,” but an abandoned poem is not fully a poem, much as a life is not complete until it’s over. In “Short Lecture on ...

Aylin is mad at her mother. Not that this is an anomaly in mother-daughter relationships. Teenage girls often bristle at the women who brought them into the world. But with Aylin, an 18-year-old ...

No, not generally. I have a vast “bone pile” of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere and ...

African Romance is a narrative poem of the Poet personae Mallama's lamentation about the abandonment and neglect of her husband whose sexual escapade is fast ruining their relationship.