Allegories of a Red Hot Angel: Poems

Fumilayo Bankole

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This Book is Available Paperback (6x9)9781434337412 $ 9.99
Allegories of a Red Hot Angel is a collection of poems and one prose that began ten years ago. Self-reflective. Descriptive. Experiential. Connected. Observant. These poems capture life from the perspective of one black woman over the course of love and vulnerability, racism, music and maturation while living in the City of Angels.
Fumilayo Bankole began writing stories at the age of eight and journaling by twelve. She has co-produced a CD entitled L.A. River composed of twelve acoustic songs and poetry. She has self-published a chapbook called Zoom Zooms & Wham Whams and has poetry included in an anthology entitled Black Love. Foremost, she has written a speculative fiction novel entitled Canaan’s Labyrinth and its sequel, which will be published in the near future. Fumilayo lives in Los Angeles with her son.

My Father

 

Looking for my father

In Mom’s old address books

Profile grains black

On browning white curing at an edge

They say it’s my face too but I can’t tell

 

I’ve dreamed him

My forgiveness embroidered

On amber-colored bubas

Tasting fufu dipped in peanut sauce

Cola nut steeped in his pores

Older sister brother second mother

Reason for my name

 

Overseas postage

Tunes Mom la la’d on our drives

Talking drum n high life

Lamba on my tongue

Told a man of th people

Like Sunni or Fela

 

Men who claim to love me

Sculpted brow geodesic tones

Wasn’t he killed? a book seller said

You didn’t know?

No blurb in a paper

Registered note

Or reasons for why…

Been looking

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