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Timi Sanni is a writer, editor, and multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, Nigeria. His debut chapbook, The Ordinary Affair of Being Human (Akashic Books, 2025), is forthcoming as part of the African Poetry Book Fund New-Generation African Poets series. A recipient of the Anita McAndrews Award, Sprinng Poetry Contest, Kreative Diadem Writing Contest, and Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, his work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, New Delta Review, Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, Apparition Literary Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere.


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12 May 2025

You saw her for the first time at your front door, like she wanted to sell you something or convert you. She had light hair and dark eyes, and she was wearing fatigues, which was the only way you knew that your panicked prayers of the last few minutes had not come true. “Don’t freak out,” she said. “I’m you. From—uh, let’s just say from the future. Can I come inside?”
Time will not return to you as it was.
The verdant hills they whispered of this man so apt to sin / chimney smoke was pure as mountain snow compared to him.
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