The Equation of Time
Take: x = today, y = tomorrow, and k = time / Question I: What would you consider as constant / if all of these unknown variables wear / the memory of you?
Joshua Effiong
Joshua Effiong is a writer and digital artist from the Örö people of Nigeria. He is a a Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of Aster Lit’s Spring 2022 Award in Poetry, 2nd prize winner of Creators of Justice Awards 2021(poetry category), Finalist for 2021 River Heron Editors’ Prize and Semi-finalist for Jack Grapes Poetry Prize 2021. His poetry chapbook Autopsy of Things Left Unnamed was published in 2020. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Kalahari Review, Shallow Tales Review, Rough Cut Press, Madrigal Press, Titled House, The Indianapolis Review, Chestnut Review, Rising Phoenix Review, Acropolis Journal, FERAL, Augment Review, Ghost City Press, Hearth Magazine, 580 split, Wrongdoing Magazine, Vast Literary Press, Native Skin and elsewhere. Find him on Instagram @josh.effiong and twitter @JoshEffiong