Sacrament of Bodies

In the poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival.
 

Before Your Mama Knew Us as Light    
The Ritual of Giving a Body Its Name    
Cathedral of a Broken Body    
Departure    
Kumbaya    
Saddest Night Alive    
Elegy for a Burnt Friend    
Coming Out    
How to Survive the Fire    
At Udi    
Denial    
The Guilt of Exile    
To the Man Who Mocked My Scared Body    
Boy    
Pink Club    
Before You Leave    
The Birthday    
A Viral Picture    
Satan Be Gone    
What We Do Not Want    
The Lost Chapter of the Bible Written After God Stopped Receiving the Smoke of Burnt Flesh    
Elegua    
The Queer Boy Remembers Colonization    
Sacrament of Bodies    
I Do Not Want My Body to Fly    
My Body Is No Miracle    
My Tinder Date Speak of Fruits    
A Reversed Epithalamium or What Didn’t See the Light    
Heaven Is a Back Alley without God    
Goodbye    
Exile    
Battle of the Rams    
Finding Home    
What the World Won’t Show Us    
On Forgetting    
Everything Must Die    
On the 23rd Death Anniversary of My Father    
Prelude to Freedom    
Sermon of Pain    
Meeting My Mother through Death    
After a Blackout    
Acknowledgments