THE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER
Two brethren of canine teeth,
Each about seven inches long
Whittled like a fencing sword,
Tricking to gag my eloquence.
The roof of my only pool room
Fluttered by the flurry of phobia,
Dragging my ass to cross swords,
Making the meat-eater’s teeth titter.
The rainmakers in my eyes pumped
The dark sea and another monster,
A sea serpent in the body of water
Came out vomiting fire on my head.
The Saber-toothed Tiger made a
Sound in stitches rolling down to
The aisle of my only pool room,
And I saw my breath gone away.
In the abyss of underworld, I found
Myself in a foundation garment,
Engineering a zaftig ziggurat, then
A white kaftan skied in and puffed the
Hose of breath repulsed to my body.
©2023 Ikechukwu Obiorah All rights reserved.
Ikechukwu Obiorah is the author of the novel The Black Python Empire, a Nigerian award-winning poet, and a novelist included in the Who is Who of Emerging Writers Book Worldwide 2020/2021, and his first novel The Black Python Empire included in The Book of Books by Sweetycat Press. His poems have been published in Poetica 2019 and Poetica 2020, by Clarendon House Publications, Spillwords Press, Ponders Series, Breaking Rules Publishing, Alpha One Linden Books by Clarendon House Publications, Better Than Starbucks, Cajun Mutt Press, Active Muse Journal, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, McMaster University Press (The Muse), Re:locations – Journal of the Asia-Pacific World, University of Toronto, PCC INSCAPE, 45 Magazine Women’s Literary Journal, Bradlaugh Fingers, Ero Gospel Magazine, and others. His debut book of poetry Darkness In Crocodileville is also available on Amazon.