Poetry

By

Wale Owoade

THE FORMULA FOR BREAKING FENCES

my tongue

brought the

formula

for

              breaking fences

the formula

played

             a blue music

your blue music

              sang

               a jolt

that wrecked

                                 my face.

AFTER THE FLOOD

I remember

the great flood:

your jaunty moans

to my

               jerky moves

how you cadged me

             for thrusts

how I burrowed

                           towards

your  North

how we perished

after the flood

Wale Owoade

Wale Owoade is a Nigerian poet. His works have appeared or forthcoming in publications like: Dverse Anthology of World Contemporary Poets, Via GrapeVine II, The Lake Poetry Journal, The Bombay Review, Mapple Tree Literary Supplement, Yellow Chair Review, Black Mirror Magazine, Apogee Journal, Eunoia Review, Prachya Review, Afri-Poet, Praxis Magazine, The Zoomoozophone Review, Radar Poetry Journal, African Writer, WORD Up, The Kalahari Review, The New Black Magazine and many others. Wale is the Publisher and Managing Editor of EXPOUND: A Magazine of Arts and Aesthetics and is currently working on two poetry manuscripts. You can follow him on Twitter @WaleOwoade and read more of his works at http://walethepoet.tumblr.com