One Poem
Unweanable(2015) He clings onto breasts of the Republic,squeezing, biting them with 70-year-old teeth,blind to the queue of infants behind him. From “A Nation in Labour,” the author’s poetry collection. © Ber Anena
Ber Anena
Two poems
The Past as Insomnia (2024) The Lord’s Resistance Army war has been over for 17years but you cannot surrender to sleep. You still hear it: ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatataboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom! You carried those haunting sounds of Kony’s terrorto America. You still rage at his…
Privileged Despair
A brief recollection of escaping the Lord’s Resistance Army.