Poetry: When I Turned Twelve by MOHAMMED YUSUF
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A poem contained by a single childhood memory. The poem’s logic moves between the space of domesticity and the ominous as a young Nigerian boy comes to understand what his role in his family will become. Yusuf’s poem guides its…