{"id":778,"date":"2024-09-02T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akpatacww.com.ng\/?p=778"},"modified":"2024-09-02T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:22:39","slug":"sensual-exodus-joemario-umana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell My Body I Love You &#8211; JoeMario Umana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>after Georgia Ifunaya\u2019s Self-Love&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">running water<br>from the shower<br>becomes hands<br>&amp; crawl my skin<br>like cover crops over soil,\u00a0<br>planting a million pimples\u00a0<br>on my body\u2014a land fertile<br>with want.\u00a0<br>I slide into the tunnel<br>of my left palm&#8217;s index<br>and thumb,\u00a0<br>slippery like okra\u2019s draw<br>made from soap and water.\u00a0<br>this is how I tell my body<br>I love you,\u00a0<br>a fellowship with eyes closed,\u00a0<br>desire popped up<br>like opened picture\u00a0<br>on phone&#8217;s gallery,\u00a0<br>and breath caught<br>with body trembling<br>\u2014a flesh quake,\u00a0<br>the world dead.\u00a0<br>then an exodus of self<br>\u2014a coming out.\u00a0<br>and surrendering<br>into guilt&#8217;s arms<br>feeling all filthy and sinful<br>remembering what the pastor says<br>about my love and a fire<br>that never sleeps<br>and will never turn<br>my body<br>to black powder<br>but offer<br>an everlasting pain,\u00a0<br>the water<br>from the shower<br>washes it all away<br>along skin,\u00a0<br>semen and soap lather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Georgia Ifunaya\u2019s Self-Love&nbsp; running waterfrom the showerbecomes hands&amp; crawl my skinlike cover crops over soil,\u00a0planting a million pimples\u00a0on my body\u2014a land fertilewith want.\u00a0I slide into the tunnelof my left palm&#8217;s indexand thumb,\u00a0slippery like okra\u2019s drawmade from soap and water.\u00a0this is how I tell my bodyI love you,\u00a0a fellowship with eyes closed,\u00a0desire popped uplike opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[42,9,11,37,6,48],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-1","category-poetry","tag-contemporary-nigerian-poets","tag-nigerian-literature","tag-nigerian-poetry","tag-nigerian-literary-magazine","tag-poetry","tag-praise-osawaru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}