Boys Quarter

Chukwuma Ndulue

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November 2017
OUT OF PRINT
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DOCKS

There are things
I never told you

about the summers,
enough to fill

the thickest left-
handed bible.

The boys with
their flat and rosy

knuckles living
the dream of fighters

tangle, twist, ache.
What we did with little

reason: betray
the weaknesses

of disused lovers,
roll through parties

in sixes. On the banks
you can smell

personality cooked
over tin foil—tears

with every jab
blood with every blow.

Remember the utility
in loving fitfully?

Disassembled friends, we
drown now below

the currents, carrying
pocket curses. Filling

the gorge seven
axe handles deep.

… the language shivers and snorts with life.

Henri Cole

Boys Quarter is in many ways an expedition. An exploration of the self and the environment and how the two are bound to meet somewhere between city and field.

About the Author

Chukwuma Ndulue is a writer, teacher, and occasional small engine mechanic. His work has appeared in Boaat, Muse/A Journal, Impakter and Tinderbox. He has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from Columbia University.

Praise

Loneliness clings to these salty, self-flagellating poems, but the language shivers and snorts with life. And from a landscape of concrete, needles, used condoms, moth lights, and rats, a loving spirit emerges.

Henri Cole

Publication Details

Chapbook
staple-bound. 32 pp, 5 x 7 in
Publication Date: November 01 2017
Distribution: Direct Only