Blood and Water: ọbara na mmiri, by Catherine Okoronkwo Sohini Basak The poet finds a still

The poet finds a still

with its vivid enactment of how

about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life

“Utting unashamedly loves language

Blood and Water: ọbara na mmiri, by Catherine Okoronkwo Sohini Basak The poet finds a stillBlood and Water begins with an ordinary everyday scene that many who knows what it is like to live in an inter generational home will be able to identify with. The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty. One can almost smell the tobacco and taste the goat pepper soup and the stews pleasurable moments. But even this cannot take away from the abuse and the tacit silent collusion by the elders; the entitled folks who struts