David Ishaya Osu
David Ishaya Osu

David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet, memoirist, and editor. His work has appeared in *Magma Poetry*, *Poetry Wales*, *The Capilano Review*, *Eureka Street*, *Slice Magazine*, *Transition*, *Platypus Press*, and forthcoming in *The Griffith Review* and *The Oxford Review of Books*. He is a board member of *Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation*, and the poetry editor of *Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel*. David currently lives in England where he earned an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent.

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Dream

(for Dad)

I woke up from a dream, crying and asking for water—the last time it was ice cream and new papers father bought for my birthday he said, build aeroplanes and watch your dream fly: the house was quiet, the trees were not —when is daddy coming back, I leaned into mother touching her breast as […]

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