Akhim Yuseff Cabey

Akhim Yuseff Cabey is a Pushcart Prize-winning black author whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, the Florida Review, Rhino, Passages North, Salamander, the Minnesota Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Originally from the Bronx, New York, he now lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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Akhim Yuseff Cabey  | 
Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

listen, I tell you from behind at the bathroom mirror holding my wrist to your ear. still slowly you lean toward your face you fear is too close to ecru. you finger cheekbone skin as if splitting eggshell halves to free the embryo inside. you’re still hunted by a ghost whose breathprints none of us […]