Cento for Isolation
by Wale Ayinla
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
The way that the sea fails to drown itself every day.
I wake up & it breaks my heart. A return to the strange
idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt,
the empty. In an effort to get people to look into each other’s
eyes more, we just gather on the balcony & swallow all the silence
until we’re filled with fireflies & sleep.
Source: From the Isolation Issue (September 2020)
Cento for Isolation
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
WALE AYINLA is a Nigerian poet, essayist, and editor. He is a Best of the Net Award and Best New Poets Award nominee, and his works appear or are forthcoming on Palette Poetry, Connotations Press, Waccamaw, Glass Poetry, Existere and elsewhere. He is @Wale_Ayinla on Twitter. He is the founding editor of Dwarts Magazine.
