Friday, March 14, 2014

THE FIRST (an anti-RAPE allegory)


Sayo Aluko



Her name is fecund femininity. Her name was fecund femininity. Like an intricately carved pitcher emerging gracefully from the finest Potters’ wheel, so she berthed virginally out of adolescence into teenage-hood, glancing gracefully with chastity within and the allure of innocence without. At a time when the fad of pubertal exuberance tenaciously grinned