Poetry – The Square Root of Zero

The water

by Woozie on May 15, 2019 in Poetry • 0 Comments

RIP Chukwuemeka Akachi A young man has let go and I am angry. I am angry because a young man has let go. Because it continues not to seem possible. Because this path we pursue pins us in dark corners thinking ourselves into traps that we can’t escape. Because life support is expensive and alchemy…

Keep Dancing

by Woozie on February 9, 2018 in Poetry • 1 Comment

I would like to propose a metaphor. Let’s assume that you exist. Not only that you exist but that your existence is consequential. That your actions will actually have an impact on the world. Now, let’s build on this assumption and say that you exist within a given context. And that the world around you took as much part in…

Tacenda

by Woozie on May 26, 2017 in Poetry • 1 Comment

Child, she said Never look a dreamer in the eye, she said Child, she said Mind you never catch a dreamer’s eye, she said. I, said I Will never look a dreamer in the eye, said I I, said I Will never catch a dreamer’s eye, said I. The sky replied, Don’t let the sun burn out your…

And Breathe

by Woozie on July 25, 2016 in Poetry • 0 Comments

Dwell. Wait. Gather. Create. Expand. Accept. Pull. Consult. Study. Restate. Step. Dwell. Wait for Gather with Create for Expand with Accept to Pull with Consult on Study with Restate to Step with Dwell and Wait for those you Gather with to Create for others to Expand with those who Accept to Pull with the rest as we Consult on the…

Give this Essay a Fighting Chance

by Woozie on May 28, 2014 in Commentary • 2 Comments

Here, where the smell of charred flesh dances in the wind and lingers before ascending into forgotten dreams. Here where fists of men meet fists of men and women and children are marked as battlefields. Here where ideologies are nothing but reasons to die. No, excuses to kill. Here where gutters have seen so much deoxygenated blood…