Tell the Truth about the Summer
by Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle
how you find the soil of your joy
then the ceiling. the sweat.
the unmuted sadness.
the unspooled self.
Source: From the Isolation Issue (September 2020)
Tell the Truth about the Summer
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TIWALADEOLUWA ADEKUNLE is a writer and a 2nd-year doctoral student at Purdue University. Her creative writing appears or is forthcoming in Breakwater Review, 20.35 Africa, Indiana Review and 2017 Best “New” African Poets anthology, among others. She was selected as a scholarship recipient for the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and was honored to win the Flo Gault student poetry prize. Tiwaladeoluwa is also a founding member and facilitator of Rari, a Pan-African initiative for emerging poets. She was born in southwestern Nigeria.
