Army Range
by: Marvellous Mmesomachi
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Swan X, is a budding poet from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He has been published in Weganda Review, Cloudscent Journal, Serotonin, Isele, Dawn Review, Poetry Sango-Ota, Poetry ColumnNND amongst others. He is the winner of the 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize, co-winner of the 2024 Poetry ColumnNND Chapbook Award, the 2024 Folorunsho Editor's Prize for Poetry and has been shortlisted for the 2025 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. You can find him listening to his favorite singer Lana del Rey, or writing a poem. He tweets @mesomaccius.
Really truly beaitiful
“There is no blood // in your mouth. No moment where I jump off the cliff // with a howl.” I keep coming back to those lines.