Insolence
written by: Frank Njugi
@FrankNjugi
I wear the ochre robe of ignorance
& make the asyndeton’s in my poetry
the phantasmal flowers which echo;
the most beautiful part of a woman
are her flaws.
I make my heart the tomb of an
obstinacy which is the pearl
a boy’s heart is downed with.
& nothing stops the constant
oscillation of my proclivity
-to love people a mother
had warned me about at her knee.
I am the state flower of an essence
that does not aspire to master
the surging of one’s desires
when preemptively in shame.
Frank Njugi is a Kenyan writer, Page Poet, culture journalist and critic. Some of his accolades include being a Pushcart Prize nominee 2023, being named runners-up in the 2023 ILS - Fence Fellowship seminar and appearing in the Longlist of the inaugural Akachi Chukwuemeka prize for literature. In early 2024, he was among the recipients of the inaugural Sevhage-Agema Founder's Prize. An alumni of the Nairobi Writing Academy, he currently serves as the East African correspondent for African and Black Media Publication, Afrocritik.
