The Creed of Grief: (after Rasak Malik )

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AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI:10.1353/afa.2023.a920500

Ndubuisi Martins

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The Creed of Grief(after Rasak Malik )
Ndubuisi Martins (bio)

The war was set even before the cockcrow. We sat in the hedgerow of griefand alternated hopes and sighs.

We had our names as tribes, who knewthe grotto of love; but have lost a common song.

You say, it’s well because you look to things distant—the lostcowry of life.

You say, it would be green off this space,when we witness a rain to replace this damp heat.

You say, it’s well because you think the Ogene would sound againand children will gather to eat from the village bowl.

You say, we will conquer with tobacco teeth and your breath dropsunder too many times, in the foul smell of rotten egg.

You say, life will return to this quiet houseleft to a regime of silence and dust. [End Page 238]

Ndubuisi Martins

Ndubuisi Martins is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many poetry magazines and journals, including African Writer Magazine, Ngiga Review, Lunaris Review, Wreaths for a Wayfarer, and Sorosoke. He has published two collections of poems, One Call, Many Answers (Createspace, 2017) and Answers through the Bramble (Grand Touch, 2021), the latter of which was longlisted for the 2022 Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) Poetry Prize, English Category.

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.