till mirrors can see
your body—& insects
crawl like lips
in between
blood &
sentence, i
shall think of
the window
nowhere but
in you
all over
—nothing
is stopping
the straws
from giving
honey
Crossbreeds
David Ishaya Osu
| poetry
David Ishaya Osu was born in 1991 in Nigeria. He is a board member of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation based in Uganda. His poetry appears in Poetry Wales, Vinyl, Transition, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, among others. David is currently the poetry editor for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel.