beneath the crumbs of moonlight are birds winging through the night's silence / I am aware / that my longing for you is graffiti drawn on the wall of your heart / but how do I make clear that your countenance is an aubade piped into my wounds / into the emptiness in my eyes? / like waves / your silhouette undulates in the ocean of my soul / there / down your street / I imagine my fingers slithering through your bosoms / what might befall if we're plunged into a throat of confessions? / tonight / I want to be your guy friend & more / more as in my palms sucking on your lips / more as in your lips sucking on the softness of my chest / both of us broken & abandoned / yet we will lower our bodies in a rivulet of love one more time / look / at how we complete a sequence of euphoria / we're two persons with acrophobia going bungee jumping / isn't this love, untamed? /
Hassan A. Usman, NGP II, is a Black Poet and a lover of cats.His works have appeared or forthcoming in Blue Route Journal, Baltimore Review, Invisible Lit, The Madrigal Press, Paper Lanterns, Trampset, Icefloe Press, Poetrycolumn-NND, Nymph, SprinNG, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, the Shallow Tales Review, Olumo Review, Arts Lounge, Five South, and elsewhere. He’s an alumnus of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship 2022. Hassan enjoys cooking, listening to Nigerian street music, and juggles writing with modelling. Say hi to him on Twitter or Instagram @Billio_Speaks.