Return
David Ishaya Osu
without flames, i could
put my flesh
back—as
a lover, you do
not forgive
because
the piano is
saying
sorry
to all
of us
the body will be wide
someday & we will
burn
to blue is
to look at
your shadow through
a mirror &
go to
birds
the sky is
as bright
as our
scars
friends
David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist and editor. He is a board member of Babishai Niew Poetry Foundation. Among numerous publications, his work appears in Eureka Street, Slice Magazine, Transition, Salamander Magazine, New Coin Poetry, Poetry Wales, Poetry Salzburg Review, Platypus Press. David is currently the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel.