After the Pyre
The women of my lineage / all have hands wrapped / in ribbons cut out of us by men / we trusted.
H.B. Asari
H.B. Asari is a student at the University of Lagos. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Climate Change Poetry Prize 2022 and the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize 2023, and has been published in Ake Review. She can be found daydreaming about stories when she’s supposed to be listening to lectures.