Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi

All the Weed Next Door

The silence—
how I drop what I'm holding
more than how it shatters
upon arrival
to the ground.

The seed opens
into another story.
Please,
turn over.

The untouched shoulder,
clutched
by the multitudinous hands
of the rain.

The forgotten body
becomes a garden.

The room—
before growing
into a house of quiet;
feet scattered as prints,
hushed

by the whistling
of time.

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Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, a black writer, won the 2025 Rehumanize International Contest and SEARCH Magazine's Poetry Contest. His work appears in POETRY, Oxford American, The Hinternet, Strange Horizons, Blue Earth Review and elsewhere.