MoAde M. J.

MoAde M. J. is Tiv Nigerian and Irish-American. They are an undergraduate student at Syracuse University. Their poem "No Kill Cropping" has appeared in Mom Egg Review and their nonfiction essay "Namesake" was a merit winner in YoungArts 2018. They live with two roommates, a cat, and a garden full of tomatoes.

Blood Harmony

Under low light, Zilla’s fingerpads brushed the floor feeling for that telltale groove. When she found it, she took hold firmly and cracked the floorboard away. It had been done many times. It would look the same after.
Here, in a shallow dug hole underneath the cabin floorboards, the wooden box came delicately as if it were made of the dirt around it, as if it crumbled.