Viscosity
on my mind, the weather is a sea creature.
it’s Thursday known as death’s day.
eye
still in the creature’s vault.
then it was me and it; a freak mutualism:
something out of a grotesque setting.
yet we
stride over the viscosity of this water, tending
webbed and skinny feet, hoping a buzzing winged
meal, which is two from the insecta, crosses
this side of the pond.
Onyedikachi Chinedu is a Nigerian poet. He’s a recipient of the 2018 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (poetry category). His works are published in Kreative Diadem, Artslounge, and Mementos: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry and forthcoming in Rising Phoenix Review and Stone of Madness Press. He tweets at @Onyedikachined.