Poems of memory, kinship, love, loss, identity, and belonging.
Kindred is Apuk Ayuel’s second poetry collection, conversing with the everyday—the mundane and the profane, the joyful and the painful, the transcendent and the base.
No More Betrayals is Apuk Ayuel Mayen’s first poetry collection, a poetic portrait of South Sudan, exploring a people’s liberation struggle, relapse into war, and visions of a brighter future.
Selected Poems
A selection from Kindred and No More Betrayals.
Colorless
From Kindred
“Love, after all, is colorless and
Multiplicities of color at the same time.”
Mundari Girl
From Kindred
“Where did you learn such grace?
How do you walk so unhurriedly…”
No More Betrayals
From No More Betrayals
“Brotherhood fused in fields of play,
Nurtured in shared pasture lands…”
They Called Me Kush
From No More Betrayals
“They called me Kush,
Most beautiful,
Most trusted, and
Most endowed.”
Apuk Ayuel Mayen 