Two Poems
Stream
we got our names from
the river’s mouth: the field
is only open / in a clam
is the rest of honey
that lathers in
light—the sun
has stopped
entering
lakes
for fear of father
hood & eating
the broken beams
in a mooneye, we
face flames
& begin
to peal
They call me a catfish
i hope you feel
like you do / like Hawaii
like a walk around
three good girls
eating apples for
the first laboratory
—she caught
her voice
behind
the suicide
note
yellow
like yolk
About David Ishaya Osu
David Ishaya Osu was born in 1991 in Nigeria. He is a board member of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation based in Uganda. His poetry appears in Chiron Review, CutBank,Vinyl, Transit
