Teddy has a thing with sky-gazing. You can find his work in Shot Glass Journal, Paragraph Planet, Gone Lawn, Three Line Poetry, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and other magazines and Journals. Sometimes he sends letters to Daily Nation, one of Kenya's local newspapers.

Teddy Kimathi

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Houseflies

They all gather on a can in a dumpster,
and rub their front legs, as though they are
shedding off a secret weighing down on them.
Their eyes scan around the air, as their
buzzing attracts more flies from other dumpsites.
It becomes a congregation. Harmony
seems to be their mantra,
as they seem so at peace enjoying
the mess around them. Time
to time a gusty wind blows their projects
away during summer.