i share this with you all because a green boat has since come to collect me i saw a ghanaian fisherman moored on the thames and i didn't think twice as i sailed away This is a book which excavates identity and self-knowledge, a journey from the spiritual realm which also attempts to stitch whole the frayed fibres of diasporic belonging. The areas explored range from Africa to spiritual awakening taking the reader on a journey to self. Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu's verse evokes the beauty of the earthly and spiritual realms of human experience, navigating a poetic course from London to Ghana through themes of belonging and faith. in the basement of the heart cartographies of dispossession occupy the rhythm Her poems dance at the intersection between the mundane and the sacred, weaving the everyday through with perceptions of the eternal, the ancient and the evanescent. i thumb through each black orb, counting the time breath and matter, life and death, another human story with the same rosary that made its way to me that may outlive my fingers purchase these nights before they purchase you rain pouring into the lake at lordship rec and a hundred and one purple clouds pulsating- the edge of our galaxy almost visible through the london smog About the Author Soukeyna Osei-Bonsu is an African writer and poet born in Bordeaux, France and based in London, UK. A SOAS Anthropology and International Relations graduate, her work explores African belonging and identity as well as Tasawwuf / the spiritual dimension of Islam. Soukeyna is involved in Black activism and runs several projects for the Black community in North London. She is co-founder and EIC of MZAB magazine, a quarterly online publication which explores adventure, culture and spirituality, and in her spare time has a keen interest in global healing practices, ritual and film production.