Candice Nembhard
Mother of the Disinherited
to Khadija Saye and Grenfell
it was unexplainable
they reported
how in the afterlife
a laugh could still be heard
in the early morning
trapped behind a window
or a thumb of opportunity
CANDICE NEMBHARD is a writer, poet, and Obsidian Foundation alumna based between Berlin and Birmingham. Her writing has been published in SAND Journal, Poetry London, Frieze and elsewhere.