Naming
- Naming
I watch it Sit in your mouth,My father's way of telling his child"Something about you will not live forever"Only, you do not say it as he intendedAbuga,"The one who came to visit"Ab-uga,"The one who opens the way"You call me like hope is why we are.But I am built on road and spiritI always disappear.My tongue whispersto your attentive nipple"Everything that makes me wholeleaves a hole in me.It's dawn in this body,don't trust the light,What is immortalis all we buryin each other at sunset." [End Page 178]
Daisy Odey is a Nigerian poet. She is the author of the chapbook Fragments in a Closet, which was published in the African Poetry Book Fund New-Generation African Poets chapbook box set (2019) edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani. Her poems have appeared in the Ake Review (3rd edition), Saraba (issue 22), Enkare Review, and others. She has performed her poetry in various festivals across Nigeria including Kaduna Book and Arts Festival (2019), Abuja Literary and Arts Festival (2019), Benue Book and Arts Festival (2019), and others.
