Bio
Tukur Ridwan (He/Him) is a Nigerian author of three poetry collections, including Silence (2025), and a recipient of the Brigitte Poirson Monthly Poetry Prize (March 2018). His poems were shortlisted in the Bridgette James Poetry Competition (2025), the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (2020), and were also published in Zoetic Press, Empyrean Literary Magazine, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Afrocritik, Kelp Journal, ArtisansQuill, and elsewhere. He loves black tea, sometimes coffee. Twitter/IG @Oreal2kur
Tukur Loba Ridwan
Narcissus
Sometimes, a boy can be too tough
For his oversized shadow to handle.
Then, he approaches the mirror
After shooing away his lover.
He obsesses over himself
And mothers his atoms of being
Like the sea to capsized ships.
He then searches for his lost fragments
In another lover's eyes in a scanty town.
Such is a boy with bones of dead beginnings.