Dreamscape w/ Death on The Knot of Mars

unlike the prisoner in a cellar, ‎i am in a whirlpool with salmon sprawls and dolphins ageing my consciousness. the weightlessness of sea current, like love undone by the proboscises sucking the pale blue blood. darkness rushing into a tongue & words becoming starlings, cliffhangers in a brazen nightmare. the wind learning its ways of harmattan music. cold breath, fizzy fogs, hungry dogs, humans strolling to the lame of time. footprints unclenching its memories. memories swallowing daughters of our own sins. needles in haystacks. holes rushing back into the ants. memory dissolving into a wallpaper. lens in a loophole of a moth. fireflies burning desires out of the man in a nightgown. porpoise remaking arcs in water. a fisher's nest escapes the trap of fins and shark scales. burns on the inside of a refrigerator. coldness unlearning its purpose out of a closed palm. humans diluting through a wormhole portal. the end of an apocalypse tight on the knot of Mars. my mother's village folding its people into ditch holes. my father searching for the exit of his father's tongue roll. i, an unfinished maze in the wonders of Armageddon. i, the mourning with a dandelion clock swimming in aspirin instead of a yellow river. i, the limbs and tendrils numbing the pain of distance in an unparalleled satellite. crawling to call my name a tortoise's shell. i, the bare tooth of a stopwatch. breaking time out of prison, in dilation of a laughter at the mouth edge of drowning ecstasies.

BIO:

Aliyu Umar Muhammad is a Nigerian poet, visual artist and secretary, Muktar Aliyu Art Residency Minna, Nigeria. He is an author, MC and volunteers for Bátà Magazine and Arewa Poetry Review. Connect with him on Instagram @ poet.haidaar