David Ishaya Osu
David Ishaya Osu is a poet and street photographer living in South Australia. His work has appeared in Magma Poetry, Meanjin, The Victorian Writer, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Griffith Review, The Hopkins Review, The Oxford Review of Books, among others. David is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.
The art of remembering
On our last day at work, we exchanged social media handles; we promised each other to stay in touch. We had worked together as museum assistants for two weeks and decided to spend the last night together over drinks, music, chats, reminiscences, laughter, hugs. We recounted moments on the job, trying to master museum vocabulary, museum paces, museum gestures, museum postures. Ten of us, new to the job, were recruited on the same day. And for the two weeks we worked together, we became a family.
Call it the unity of strangers: from Poland, Korea, Nigeria, China, New Zealand, Britain, India.
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