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Quentin and Eve Smiley models at Casa Kiboko Bay

Kintu’s children

As many as the grains of millet The millet, that Nambi forgot in the sky The sky that descended Walumbe the night of death Eternal celestial struggle of never ending light and darkness Where triumph is death and burial, deep in the
March 5, 2026
Lake Nyanza

before maize there was mtama

Balancing on a board of wood The other side extends a greeting We touch in water and they desire to pull me under Beneath the weight of water and wonder The fear of gripping mud and becoming part of this tectonic movement
February 26, 2026
Mailu after 430 book launch

god sees so much sex

The fuckle of creation, is in the deliberate sounds of nature The throttle of abandoned power and supplication The multiplicity of it in plain sight and multicolor The risk of death in reproduction and renewal in shared knowledge The path of a
February 19, 2026

Reincarnations

My gods Look at me Like gelded phantoms From the ruins of their tombs As I supplicate to foreign gods And they serve me well Maybe better My deities toss and turn Trying to catch my attention Managing momentary accessibility In my
April 6, 2024