POETRY

Dacious Kasoka 

                      CREDIT: PATRICK DOUGHER

 

NAMES

& before I begin 

to masturbate

I’m reminded 

of names 

I think of what 

to call you- 

a blue bird

 or a cartwheel 

on dusty roads 

or a memory wide 

enough to swallow

 me whole.

                                                   

Dacious Kasoka, alias “Loner Pen” was born on the 19th of August 2000. He writes from his room in Lusaka. His poems have been published and are forthcoming in Writers Space Africa magazine, World Voices magazine, Agape Review, Arts Lounge magazine, Spillwords Press, The Kalahari Review & elsewhere.