from the wreaths of our pasts;
what weaves the sea,
the waves together
where our tears gather
in dirge
bewailing the heft of loss
& sinking
in
un-belonging
wishing to unlock
the noose of un-fitting
Lillian Akampurira Aujo
Friday, 23 June 2023
discovery by Lillian Akampurira Aujo
we wonder how to un-tether
Lillian Aujo is a Ugandan author. In 2009, She was the first winner of the first BN poetry prize by Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Foundation . In 2015, she was longlisted for, and won the Inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature for her story "Where pumpkin leaves dwell".
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