Obeah HWMB 04 002

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Obeah Some nights he does turn into a pig, a black cat. Some nights he does squawk his own name from the lungs of a malfini . Some nights he does undress from his skin, flying out as a flame to see how the night would unfold. And when his son get big enough, when the boy pee finally start to make bold foam in the dirt, he teach him how to be something more than a man, teach him the art of transcending his balls, how to wear the legs of cows under his skirt, to be deep and dark and unanswerable, like the pit-toilet he was now above, chanting down his poverty with something like wings. Every night now, going out to work obeah making something of himself. (p. 33). Lucien, Vladimir. "Tjenbwa: Night-Shift." Sounding Ground . Peepal Tree Press, 2015. https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/sounding-ground