By the riverside

DAVID AGYEI-YEBOAH

By the riverside
David Agyei-Yeboah

Down by the riverside
I twitch to dip in

The river forms a channel
Endless twinkling wonders

I unsheathe and sink in
Away from unrealized dreams

Into transcendent glory
Into hope’s widened embrace

As the waters lap
Bubbles of ambivalence come up shore

My blood thickens
Tongue and lips soften

Language has failed me
Left me widowed of past mistakes

The failures drip in
Waters thumping hard

Down my throat
Into my eyes, nostrils, ears

Bringing me under
Stray bullets finding home

My arms flail
Breath shortens

The river is breaking into sea

And I’m the young man
Dwarfed between greatness and ruin

David Agyei-Yeboah is a poet, fiction writer, and musician from Accra, Ghana. Find him on Instagram @davidshaddai and Twitter @david_shaddai.

Issue no. 1 (print) Issue no. 1 (print)
Issue no. 1 (print)
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The debut issue of Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine. 6×9 paperback, 134 pages.

Poetry by: David Agyei-Yeboah, Maude B., Madeline Blair, Ace Boggess, Ashlee Craft, Zach Crosswait, Zoë Davis, Gavin DuBois, Mal Grace, Erica Hasselbach, Asmi Kartikeya, Daithí Kearney, Maëlle Keita, Ayesha Khan, Emma Lee, Juan Madrigal, Faisal Mohyuddin, Phoebe Nerem, Benjamin Niespodziany, Vaghawan Ojha, Samuel Plauché, Colette Postaer, David Raygoza, Tori Rego, Maddy Rowe, Patricia Russo, Satori, Ayden Scott, Brandon Shane, Sameen Shakya, Anca Varvara-Piccozzi, Ethan Viets-VanLear, ​​Rebecca Watson, Jenny Whidden, gray lindsey, Ammara Younas, Zaid Zaheer

Prose by: B.E. Austin, Johnzee Baptiste, Rohit Karir, Sara Muttar, Sarah R. New, Anna Nguyen, Farhan Nurdiansyah, Eli Sugerman, Dylan Terry

Art by: Fatima B., Bea Bouman, Nathan Doty, Bushra Khan, mahnoor, Zafar Malik, Stefanie Reinhart

Please note that copies are printed-to-order and can take up to one month to be delivered.