December 9, 2023
The frogs are making a line in the sand.
I can see them on the beach from our dressing room window. Ikaruga tells me to ignore them and continue changing. I turn my face back to the screen and wait in mock impatience for my accessory to be chosen.
Smart Glasses – A modern set of eyewear.
Classic Eyepatch – A replica of a pirate eyepatch.
December 6, 2023
A brief glimpse of the pit for a few black seconds and I’m back wiping blood from my eyes and waving the pickax handle around like a torch, the very handle I kept by my bedside over the decades in case of home invasions only we’re the invaders of our home, man and wife made strange and deadly by the magic words spoken at last.
I behold the debris of our home,
December 5, 2023
…but her advice still doesn’t tell him how to start, or where; endless walks in the warming weather to find some kind of inspiration; but that doesn’t help either, no matter how far south or north he goes; south to watch the ferries shuttle through the harbor, drawing green and white marbled wakes behind them, eerily smooth like scars on the face of the water; north until he hits Central Park;
December 4, 2023
Setting: a hostel apartment in UNILAG(University of Lagos) on Friday 19th December 2003
Friday 19th December 2003,
eniola: i feel so slow. it’s like i am following these steps that will keep me busy, keep me involved and present, but it all feels too repetitive and feels as though i am moving honey viscosity slow
collectives: take it in bits, talk to us
eniola: i’m exhausted,