Inebriation
& we come from a place where boys are proclaimed
seers for saying a lower prayer lopsided by the
characterization of drunkenness a Hart Crane’s
floundering of one whose father’s face is the face
of a grandfather a sloshing of an ancestral capillary,
that is a saucer for carrying the margins of memory. The
implications of wishes are unadorned dreams & so maybe
Keli Goff should have written a play about inebriated ones;
but because she didn’t we instead kowtow to the smog
that blinds this air which unmoors our ancestry -to feel
the warmth of a gone mother…
Contributor’s Bio
Frank Njugi is a Kenyan writer, page poet, and literary culture journalist living in Nairobi. His Micro-chapbook: Benthic is forthcoming in Konya Shamsrumi digital editions 2023). Some of his accolades include; being A Sondeka Award nominee in 2023, being longlisted for the Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature 2023, also shortlisted for the Ibua Journal Continental Call 2022, and also a finalist in the Kikwetu Journal flash fiction Prize 2022. His works are previously featured/forthcoming in literary platforms such as The Standard Kenya Newspaper, Kalahari Review, TvoTribe, The Shallow Tales Review, African writers magazine, Roi Feineant Press, Olney Magazine, and others. He currently serves on the editorial team of Salamander Ink Magazine – a platform that showcases Literary art expressionism and culture & he tweets as @franknjugi.
