MOTHERHOOD MEANS IMMOLATION TO MY MOTHER, A POEM BY MOSHKUR AJIKOBI
the last time hunger threatened to kill me,
my mother cut her flesh & fed me.
& when my oesophagus was like a desert that
my saliva wasn’t suffice to wage war against
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://poemifypublishers.com/motherhood-means-immolation-to-my-mother-a-poem-by-moshkur-ajikobi/
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