In: Anthology Volume 5

All the Saints of Elmina Castle are Wet – Sarpong Osei Asamoah

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All the blood is a black road through the sea
All the saints are fishes folded in a wave.
All the gods must be sweet cows slaughtered with silence.
All the boats are a sour sword slice of history.
All the galleons are red lipstick on the ocean floor.
All the caged bird songs are in an unmarked graveyard.
All the death is clear wave tiptoe,
All its heads are blonde &
All the gunpowder in my prayer is wet with saltwater.

Sarpong Osei Asamoah is a bilingual Ghanaian poet who lives in Accra, Ghana. His work has featured in Tampered Press Magazine, Protean, Agbowo Magazine, Lolwe, Olongo Africa Magazine, Bacopa Literary Review, IceFloe Press Magazine, Journal of the Writers Project of Ghana, (Twi poems) at WriteGhana.com, and elsewhere. He is a founding member of and has served as poetry editor at the Contemporary Ghanaian Writers Series (CGWS). He has been an intern at the Library of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) and is an editorial intern at Tampered Press. Sarpong is also a Chemical Analyst by formal training.

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