You said we were fine. Meaning we were okay. Meaning nothing had failed. And I nodded, because nodding is how agreements begin to ossify. Caring
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Ebuka Stephen is a Nigerian poet. His works have appeared in Dragon Soul press, Rattle and elsewhere. He was longlisted for the 2025 ZODML Poetry Prize and also for the 2025 Sande Poetry Prize. Ebuka holds a Bachelor degree in Human Anatomy from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. He's a deliberate lover of Ghazal, and is working on a Ghazal chapbook. Besides writing poetry as a way to reflect on life, he find rooms in poems and lay in them. Ebuka is on X as Stephenspoetryy.