Biography: Pacella Chukwuma- Eke, NGP Xv, is a Nigerian poet and short story writer. She is a member of the Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation, winner of The Cradle Poetry Contest, Abuja Duet Slam, Splendors of Dawn Poetry Competition, and joint winner of the FOW poetry contest. She is currently studying Human Physiology in Uli, a foreign town in Eastern Nigeria. She is the author of Love in its bliss and sins; runner up for the 2022 Nigeria Prize For Teen Authors( Poetry.) Some of her works have appeared on the brittle paper, Eunoia magazine, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere

Becoming

For Sylvia Plath

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this poem begins with a girl

living inside a canvas

a canvas carved

by the sacred keepers of culture

of culture is what they say

when they wear you silence

you silence your voice because

they uphold a quiet woman

a quiet woman knows no difference

between…