Olaitan Humble
Olaitan Humble is a writer, editor at The Lumiere Review and reader at Bandit Fiction. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his work appears/forthcoming in Chiron Review, HOBART, Rigorous Magazine, Ethel Zine, and Luna Luna Magazine, among others. He is currently an undergraduate at the University of Lagos.
stillborn chronicles
at an assembly
of spectacles & grey hairs
my falsetto voice grew intense
sizzle of the clear
skies hitting the earth
with my umbrage earthed
into the
ugly pride on the
surface of my cuticles
sissy tapped
my ears like i
used to do hers
before crying out
like mist cloudbursts
like berceuses settling
on children
& throwing them
off their merriment
in another
corner of the
gathering was my
second cousin
screwing her way
up an iroko in the woods
she bled
lament
at the next
gathering it was
just the two of us:
my shadow & i
climbing the iroko
hoping not to die away
who lost their ways
chides us: rejoice!
you do not mourn a newborn