How Love Becomes a Silhouette
first published in Rhythm n Bones Lit Issue 6: Love
There is the song I dig deep to break its lyrics: its rhythm is in early school assembly drums & watching happy children running to school. & sometimes, like loving a girl who is water, the song loses its chord, breaking into a pond of my own teenage years & how my first girlfriend slips from memory becoming a true fountain, gushing out like a proud sea, drifting into cadence of candor & how love becomes a silhouette of song, or perhaps, a question mark around my lips, asking rhetoric of yore. Bio from 2019: Ifeoluwa Ayandele has completed his MA in English (Literature) at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Little Stone Journal, Pidgeonholes, Peekingcat Poetry, Mojave He [art] Review, Burning House Press, Neologism Poetry Journal, Kin Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria and you can follow him on twitter @IAyandele
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