Evolution

By Rachael Madakan Dandi

Nighttime under the moonlight, I speak of aging
bonds. It begins with lust or love. The theory of
the unloved unfurled after a backlash. A woman
calls the world to hear her out. Her voice, music
in the core of chaos. Song splashing like spindle
in the sea, the tide ebbing through the dissonance.
Outside, the breeze caresses the copper bench on
the veranda. A girl unclothes the scabs from her
lover’s wound. Skin stifling. Experiment after
experiment, yet my mother is no denser than air.
I mean to say all the girls I know are gaseous, &
our men empty cylinders. Today, I fill up a man.
the heavier the metalloid the harder the jabs––fist
flux. I drift towards death, towards the earth,
an orifice for my body. O man, O mysterious man,
concealed properties of alloy, unimagine the marriage
bed as battle ground. Today, I stand at the threshold
of peace, my razor tongue sharpened & unsheathed.

BIO:
Rachael Madakan Dandi is a budding writer, a student of Jewel Model Secondary School and a member of Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation Abuja. Her poem has received nomination for the Splendors of Dawn Poetry Prize and the Vivian Ihaza Sevhage Prize for Poetry