
An Elegy for an Interrupted Symphony
He fell into Death's arms Long, and slender, yet gentle to her lover

Salama Wainaina spends time discovering new worlds in any form of literature or creating new ones through her writing. Her work has appeared in The Kalahari Review, Brittle Paper, Afrocritik, The Shallow Tales Review, African Writer Magazine, Ubwali, Writers Space Africa, Qwani and The Journal of African Youth Literature (JAY Lit) where she was a co-winner of the Inaugural JAY Lit Prize for Poetry 2024. She tweets as @apoetsepitaph.
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