a dark room opens
a dark robe
a dark robe opens
a dark room
a barman sinks
inside a wardrobe
a wardrobe sings
around a barman
blue is the planting
of poems on canvas
jazz is the creaking
of bed and vocals
tearing the walls and ending
asleep in the sand
Wale Owoade is a Nigerian poet. Some of his poems have been translated to Bengali, German and Spanish. He is the Publisher and Managing Editor of EXPOUND: A Magazine of Arts and Aesthetics. He also interviews contemporary poets at The Strong Letters, and he is currently writing his debut manuscript.