thorns in her flesh: an illustrated poetry collection on love and life

THORNS IN HER FLESH is an illustrated collection of poems by a black woman on love that is often like a rose flower; magnificent in its beauty but burdened with pricking thorns. It is also about the realities of family relationships and the socio-cultural, spiritual, economic, and political complexities of life in the African context.In this collection of poetry, Eshe has thrown together poems of different themes; something akin to mixing lemon slices and balls of sugar in water. She hopes you, her dear reader, would be kind enough to stir and enjoy a tall glass of lemonade!The book is split into four chapters: pricking companions, hyena dance, tangled knots, and liquid fire.they say your thoughtscreate your worldmy third world was birthedwhen the white stormswept across our homesteadsdo i get to recreate itby simply thinkingof meadows and prairiescrystal jarsof milk and honey?i think of thornspricking her beautiful skinthe midday sunscorching her blooming dayi think of green fields and empty potsflowing rivers and bare granariesi think of beautiful jewels and plastic chainsnaked servants and gucci clad mastersi think of flooded homes and empty damsi think of the nail crownsbleeding my people dry~ eshe