Child of the sea
“My father knows me by names / that are not mine. / Tonight, I’m the fishwife.”
Chisom Okafor
Chisom Okafor, poet, nutritionist and bartender, lives in Lagos, Nigeria. His works appear or are forthcoming in the Indian Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Praire Schooner, Expound Magazine, The Single Story Foundation, The Rising Phoenix, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Kikwetu Journal, the first and second editions of The Art Naija Series on Brittle Paper, and elsewhere. He is presently on the editorial team for 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.