Smoking the Bible: poems

Flay

Quest

Nostalgia

Birth right

Sojourn

Excavation

Light flame, turn rebel

Cameo: broach

White egret

Cameo: cremation

Thread

Glow

Presence and aftermath

Poet desperate for a song

Manhood

Question

That early Sunday

The ghost speaks

A small awe

Grace

Ritual is journey

Olokun

Offertory

Horses

Insomnia

Rain

How to write a love letter to your brother

Allegory

Lineage

Snake

Litany

Zealot

Leather

Cameo: afternoon tea

The bend of tomorrow

Father

Cameo: the cut

What is traveled, what is fragile

How to kill your father

There are always bodies in the swamp

Terminus

Portal

Revelation

Incantation

Jordan is no mere river

Wing

Fragrance

Ejima

Scythe

Vigil

Mbubu

Crossing

The familiar is a texture we cannot trust

The calculus of faith.