by David Ishaya Osu
she walks out of silence.
and talks to her tail.
and all the silhouettes
in need
of a blue
surrounding:
a lake is
the dream we
all carry
in our minds
a city
stuck in a
trance
—in the left mirror
is a rainbow, a
breeze
can carry on its
wings
on and on and on
she walks
back to
the lights
on the secrets of
a water skin
that cannot stay in pictures
© Copyright David Ishaya Osu
David Ishaya Osu is a poet, memoirist, editor and street photographer. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies across Nigeria, Uganda, France, India, Ghana, South Africa, Bangladesh, the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Austria, and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor with Plenitude, and the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. David has an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) from the University of Kent, and is the author of the e-chapbooks: When I’m Eighteen (2020) and Once in a Blue Life (2020).
Read the Rest of the August Issue
- The Heart Sings A Siren by Ali Trotta
- A Nereid’s Guide to the Underworld by E. Catherine Tobler
- Depths by Thomas Jones
- Mammiwata Bay by David Ishaya Osu
- Only Circles in the Sea by Carlie St. George and Clare McCanna
- Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station by Ann LeBlanc
- An elegy for voices Ariel traded for legs by Agwam Kessington
- Dream by Mila Nowak
- mermaid life by Susmita Ramni
- Mystery of the Deep by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- more fat mermaids by Linda M. Crate
- Waking Dream by Kim Coleman Foote
- Honey and Vinegar and Seawater by Keyan Bowes
- They Will Try to Drain You by Valerie Herron
- The Sea King’s Second Bride by C. S. E. Cooney
- Self portrait as an ocean bed by S. Rupsha Mitra
- Mami-Wata by Tony Ogunlowo
- Underwater Eclipse by Cito Wheelington
- Loving the Other: Hans Christian Andersen and the evolution of mermaid romance in Wester media by Carrie Sessarego
- What Mother Failed to Mention About Dating a Mer-Man by LindaAnn Loschiavo
- I Want to Be Where the People Are: Disability and The Shape of Water by Elsa Sjunneson
- I Am Not Your Tragedy by Carlie St. George and Clare McCanna
- Canto for a Mermaid by William Heath
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