Portrait as a Vagrant Walking through Grief to Meet God

Nome Emeka Patrick is a blxck bxy whose works have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, AGNI, Triquarterly, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. (updated 4/2021)