
The Redefinition of Home
by Praise Osawaru
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Google tells me I may have OCD because I often check to see if the door is locked. now, that’s just fucked. last night, I woke up, and I couldn’t remember if I bolted the front door. my heart thumped until I saw that it was locked, that I was safe.
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home is where I am safe.
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I want to say that home is the arms of my lover. I mean, c’mon. that sweetness in my torso, as if someone poured honey inside me, when I bury myself in the haven of chest. but my girlfriend broke up with me recently, saying she can’t handle the distance.
Praise Osawaru (he/him) is a writer of Bini descent. A Best of the Net nominee, his work appears or is forthcoming in The Hellebore, Ice Floe Press, Kissing Dynamite, Roadrunner Review, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2020 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and he's a recipient of the NF2W Poetry Scholarship and a reader for Chestnut Review. Find him on Instagram & Twitter @wordsmithpraise.