Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah
Building the world

6 July 2009

  you are bookbinder        cartographer
              historian: this body of work to be studied
and a ribbed surface to control heat release.
Your lover is a safe and natural way to keep warm
though it plays it straight, it is funny. He will pause and change to texta.
To represent the change he will draw a paragraph and a man in relief.
To signal the pause, he will
gaze of an unquestioning moon. No other documentation will be required.

 
 

about history. One cannot
beowulf a page with thin smears
you dont see every day. hypochondriac      phlox. the lettuce freshened in the

structured vermouth. the bullet in my      heart voided lostness loneliness. like a

lake
	half a line of wang wei translated

	in its mind
in deepest nebbia. terminal shift
audio setting unavailable for
comment, the year turns a page -
to celebrate how ducks move and the big
noise they make! enjoining us to attend more closely
to pirate, treasure, flag and farm


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Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

About Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah


Ayiah Mensah, a vegetarian, poet, artist, translator, journalist, teacher, now edits The Rough Sheet Tanka Journal and manages Kofi Edofo Gallery and Kukubenkuka, a bar of food of tanka. He lives in the southern part of Ghana.

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