The Rising Phoenix Review posted: " how to mourn [a father/ a country] the bullets drown in a [father's/ country's] chest/ exhaling fresh air/ we sob our tongue in eulogies/ but the wailing is a found poem in erasure/ the numbness of a [father's/ country's] heart is a silent rain/ grief" The Rising Phoenix Review Read on blog or Reader how to mourn [a father/ a country] By Adesiyan Oluwapelumi The Rising Phoenix Review January 30 how to mourn [a father/ a country] the bullets drown in a [father's/ country's] chest/ exhaling fresh air/ we sob our tongue in eulogies/ but the wailing is a found poem in erasure/ the numbness of a [father's/ country's] heart is a silent rain/ grief pattering through us/ like vile wine/ there is no simple way to lose/ there is no meek way to mourn/ our [father's/ country's] memories a calabash swooning with spoilt wine/ the dead are terrible at remembering/ we inflate our [father's/ country's] bodies with oxygen/ & the dead breathes/ stillness speaks/ a dialogue teethed in brick & clay/ to mourn a [father/ country]/ we must first mourn/ the [parts/ wholeness] of ourselves/ that we lost/ a [father's/ country's] hands leave an imprint on us/ like a backdoor to a house/ where the keys are lost/ & we are the keys/ finding ourselves in this dimension/ missing one/ meaning us/ a balance that themes everything lost is found/ & everything found is lost/ grief commands its own nature/ like evergreen trees/ loss becomes a dry foliage in autumn/ its brown carapace dying away/ till death rusts into absence/ we miss our [father/ country]/ but we miss/ that [they] don't/ so we mourn// By Adesiyan Oluwapelumi Click here to listen to an audio clip. Biography: Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, TPC XI, is a medical student, poet, essayist & Assistant Editor of Fiery Scribe Review from Nigeria. Winner of the Cheshire White Ribbon Day Creative Contest (2022), & 1st runner up in the Fidelis Okoro Prize for Poetry (2023). His works are published/forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, Poet Lore, Tab Journal, Poetry Wales, Variant Literature & elsewhere. A 2023 Adroit Journal Summer Mentee, a 2023 SprinNG Writers' Fellowship, hus works were selected for inclusion in the Annual Outstanding Young Writers Anthology( Paper Crane, 2023). He tweets @ademindpoems. Comment

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