Circumference of the Sea
Her body sliced against me
like some cold inanimate thing
pulls me closer into her palm prints
the new patterns in my world.
It would be easy to say that
she more than anyone in it
deserves the time to create her
own new impermeable space
but her love is like the Circumference
of the Sea
and I can only swim her channels
towards whatever unending disaster
I may drown in.
A teacher by trade and writer at heart, Richard Okewole fuses his life in his native home of Nigeria with his experiences in the states to create poetry that speaks on many different levels. With an African father and Jamaican mother, Richard touches on topics in his writing that force readers to think outside the conventional box. His set of unpublished poetry have been featured in Polyphony Magazine and Anthology Philly Volume 1, but he spends most of his time teaching fourth grade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he resides.
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