Shards of Memories by Rahma O. Jimoh (Lucent Dreaming Issue 9)

mother’s album
drove me to the past:
running on the Rukuba hills,
sweet potatoes & fresh fruits,
click-clacks of pots & tasty steam,
shopping at the Terminus market in
between the stalls of noisy traders &
the sculpture of a woman with breasts
dangling sideways & a child strapped
on her back, faded always into space.
i hoped to touch her but we left in the
bloodbath of pines & tomatoes when
the crisis broke at the south-central
mosque. we left the shards of jolly
memories trapped forever in
the monumental pages of
mother’s album.

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Rahma O. Jimoh is a writer and nature photographer. She is a 2021 Hues Foundation scholar, and lover of sunsets and monuments. She has been published or forthcoming in Feral, Ice Floe Press, Olongo Africa and The Hellebore. She is a Pushcart prize nominee and a Poetry Reader at Chestnut Review.
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