Potpourri

Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, Nigeria

loss comes like a scroll
in a bottle. a stray luggage
and somehow its contents;
its grief- is mine to own.

this is the duplicity of grief:
the dry tears morphed as scabs
on the weight of a grief-inked
letter,

words carrying the burden of mourning
and this threnody is a metaphor
for a red poisonous petal in a
bouquet of purple daisies.
yes, this grief is a fetus born from the
spawning of red- of blood

& tonight, familiar apparitions roams the
tidal waves of the cloud and
somewhere in a cirrus,
i can see bhabi and she is not dead.
she is a little dew waiting to rain again.
she is rebirthing.

Adesiyan Oluwapelumi,TPC XI, writes from Ibadan, Nigeria. He received an Honourable Mention in the international Metamorphosis Writing Contest. He was also shortlisted in the August-September 2022 edition of the Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest.