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      December 6, 2019What Makes a Saint a Saint?Trust Tonji

      don’t you think it is bad
      how I wake up
      craving my phone
      with thoughts of my lover
      before longing to pray to God
      in hushed tones
      careful to not disturb his morning peace?
      or well, how would I even know if
      our time zone isn’t different anyway
       
      when you were younger
      did you, too, imagine
      angels winged like eagles flanking God,
      fanning him with palm fronds, saying
      holy, holy, holy, with the perfect precision
      that this ignorance can’t comprehend?
       
      here the mouth is scissors
      tearing the air with swear words
       
      shit, agriculturists concur,
      is not just waste or disgusting
      as your swears make it seem
      they know how much food
      it can help yield, if used as manure

      from #65 - Fall 2019

      Trust Tonji

      “It has not been easy to be two incomplete halves as a result of being the product of lovers of different nationalities. Father is Beninese; mother is Nigerian: the incomplete cultural immersion that comes with it, the linguistic difference, and every other byproduct that sprouts from love’s lack of foresight. Writing my stories in poetry and trying to get them out into the world is my way of seeking inner peace and escaping a throwing of tantrums that could have been otherwise manifested through uncivilized outbursts of emotions.”

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