Earth Screams

I am 45 minutes into the film. Just as one of the protagonists swings a stick and bashes a skull…

The whirr of wings turns a bunch of eyes towards the sky in hope and prayer. As paratroopers throw down…

The restless boundaries of deserts around the world broke in 2087, high waves of sand and rocks rolled unstoppable until…

Visions of the Anthropocene

Memorabilia It is raining everyday in Douala // the temperature is peaking // today is not a good day to…

Before I left, my mother gave me one piece of advice. ‘Everybody dies,’ she said. ‘Just don't die stupid.’ Eleven…

In spite of everything, the heat is relentless. I move slowly to limit the flow of sweat. I may be…

Uncle is dead but my eyes have remained dry like the August sun strolled into my tear glands and scorched…

In the kitchen sits a cooler box. In it, a Fanta.   The Fanta in the cooler box is not mine.…

Polar The Russian poet said in Paris she felt like an iceless polar bear.   One drifts on a flow,…

2020, April: The internet is full of images of emptiness – highways without cars, streets without people, iconic places like…

Joseph chewed a mouthful of tepid poached egg. There was no one else down this end of the room, and…

Staying Afloat in Guyana

On the day of the storm, the Natural History Museum of Jerusalem was flooded, its glass display cases shattered, and…

Before the forest was widowed, And postcards allayed the death of the Javan tiger, In the beginning were rhymes of…

Years ago, travelling across America on a Greyhound bus, I found myself astounded when we came upon big inland cities.…