The Invisible Hand
By Felix Eshiet
“the fair boy says he’s been peeling since manhood stripped him of innocence, but that’s not a / grief solvent enough to dissolve his whole”
Felix Eshiet
Felix Eshiet is a Nigerian writer and Efik-Ibibio poet. He has work in ONLY POEMS, Chestnut Review, Madrid Review, Efiko, 20.35 Africa, and elsewhere. A 2025 Obsidian Foundation fellow, he is the winner of the 2025 Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize for Poetry.