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What the River Keeps

A short excerpt line previewing the opening of the piece for the reader.

Tosin Abegunde
Oct 19, 2026 · 1 min read

There is a particular silence that follows the reading of a line aloud, the way a room holds its breath before deciding what it thinks.

A pulled line from the piece, set larger, for the reader who only skims.

And the piece closes the way it opened — quietly.

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Tosin writes under the name Ajekunrin of Africa — poems, plays, and essays about home, distance, and what gets left behind.

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