Once as Lovers: Beautiful Struggle Epiphanies
By Akinfe Fatou
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Chameleon in its intentions, Once As Lovers suggests the most indulgent of experiences. Cover to cover, each poem provokes a gamut of compelling emotions and warms thirsty hearts. The Author illustrates and weaves passionate spells of sensual degradation and the metaphysical evolution of touch.
Akinfe Fatou
Akinfe Fatou is a Poet, Activist, Collaborative Artist and Author of Once As Lovers. A literary virtuoso and soothsayer, her work has been recognized nationally as well as anthologized. Akinfe performs regularly and lives in New York. For more information on the Author, please visit www.akinfefatou.com.
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Once as Lovers - Akinfe Fatou
Copyright © 2008, 2011 by T. N. Mitchell
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Contents
Wa Wa
07.03.06 the evening of Sunday
And Storms May Come..
The Unholy … Sacrificial Lamb
Those Nuances
Shrug
Akinku
Untitled 1404
Internal Echoes
Return to Embryonic Joyism
Love is not an Errand
Fleshless Medleys
It Is But It Aint
Drench
Seldom Some Things
Megalopolis Creases
You shouldn’t Say