On the red soil
  my feet are bare
  with prayers
  as I pour down
  unto earth
  spirit from a glass
  to spirits
  who make things fall
  like rain
  on a Thursday night
  when schnapps and words
  are everything I have left
  to believe in.
Yaa
Yaa
By Nana Nyarko-Boateng
Biography
Nana Nyarko-Boateng is a writer, poet, and social entrepreneur. She writes and works to celebrate the human spirit and to promote our bottomless capacity for change. Born in Accra on September 11, 1986, she has worked in Media as a Broadcast Journalist and a Newspaper Editor. She has also served in the Creative Arts and the Publishing industry as a Consultant, a Programs Executive, a Publishing Assistant and a Freelance Writer. Nana currently manages the Gird Center, a literary organization based in Accra. Her work has been published the anthologies “Reflections”(Lynne Rienner), “Summoning the Rain” (Femrite Publications Limited), Look where you have gone to sit (Woeli Publishers), “Defiled Sacredness” (Mensa Press) and “We are one from one place”(Mensa Press).
