Cooking Gas Commercial
By Migwi Mwangi
The boy sprinting from Wa-Mso’s Shopping Center with a transparent plastic bag half-full of kerosene at sunset—past Big Spot Barber Shop, Think Twice Secondhand Clothes, through a rain of sparks from Samson’s Weldings, before disappearing between Johnnie Walker Keep Walking Pub and God’s Favorite Wines and Spirits—where is he flying to?
Source: Poetry (May 2026)


