After the Rain
Leaves litter
concrete bed,
having succumbed
to wind’s ecstasy.
& we’re left picking
unstrung emotions
across the room,
tooth-picking bliss,
reliving every kiss.
You can feel it—
the ache of music
in your soundproof
heart, unholy tenor
in the bones of love.
The taste of purity
in the concert of ruin
after the sex blew
off your roof…
Jide Badmus is an engineer, a poet inspired by beauty and destruction; he believes that things in ruins were once beautiful.
He is the author of There is a Storm in my Head; Scripture; Paper Planes in the Rain; Paradox of Little Fires; Silk Psalms; and Anatomy of the Sun (and everything beneath). Obaluaye is forthcoming with Flowersong Press, June 2022. He has a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Founder of INKspiredng, Poetry Editor for Con-scio Magazine; he sits on the board of advisors for Libretto Magazine.
Jide writes from Lagos, Nigeria. He tweets @bardmus IG: @instajhide
