Triplets, Unbound Memories: Ancestral Call--By Nana Arhin Tsiwah--Ghana

Triplets, Unbound Memories: Ancestral Call

on this hot nipples of poetry
we hold our stretched lips
like the Nile drowned
by the Volta

on every noon
after our fathers' sweat pour
we beat the drums
with our sweaty palms
that perhaps yester-memories
might wake from palm nut soup

this was the lord's will
the ancestors' prayers
that our mortality
shall kiss the lips
of these memories
unforgotten

Nana Arhin Tsiwah, a linguist-performist, disciple of Africanism-consciousness & student of 'Akanism' is the author and co-author of two poetry collections: Dead Epistles and Palm Leaves. Nana doubles as the chief-linguist in the Africanism Poetry Movement, "The Village Thinkers" and African Poetry Editor for Lunaris Review, Ghana & Nigeria Respectively. He writes from Cape Coast, Ghana.