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Heart – Toju Lusan

The heart is limited in its pursuit,

valves opened and closed like doors

 

leading nowhere. What being

designs its own destruction, falls

 

short of longings it feeds the earth

like a reluctant mother, baring

 

nipple to teeth. Desire is a brute,

an eye open to a dream

 

far beyond the reach of tongues

and fingertips, where the inflated sea

 

is only a wish made familiar

by the sound of water

 

pouring into a small glass.


Toju Lusan is a Nigerian writer and photographer whose work primarily explores intimacy, connection, and faith.