slowed blues playing, windows naked
blubbering glass children, brown floating
flows thickening melancholia & her shadows lighting
plucked strings faint zephyr
a cup of bitter wine a dying blunt
on the walls i stab away
spilling the red of me on the white of you
& every stroke is a beautiful death
DIANA NNAEMEKA (she/her) is a queer Igbo writer from Nigeria who likes think of herself as a lover of worlds in bits. Her works are forthcoming in The Walled City Journal and Agbowó Magazine. She writes from Enugu.