nothing happens:
I come in when they open,
hoard two corner tables
in the back
and order a tea,
bury it in honey;
then I sit
and wait
for nothing—
Emmanuel Sigauke, founder and editor of Munyori Literary Journal, is the author of Mukoma’s Marriage and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2015 NAMA Awards in Zimbabwe, and Forever Let Me Go, a poetry collection. He is also co-editor of the collections Roses for Betty and Other Stories, and Sundown and Other Stories, as well as the African Roar Series. Sigauke teaches writing at Cosumnes River College and is at work on his second poetry collection and a novel.