This is the place where loss was
Where your eyes cast doubts and streaks
Why do people write about death?
It is the great problem
And what is literature but a movement
To solution through etched exploration?
This is the place where grieving was
All my convenient answers sloughed off
Useless reptile layer
The sum total of action was to listen.
JD DeHart
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About Ijagun Poetry Journal
Ijagun Poetry Journal is a quarterly journal that provides a platform from which we can tell our own stories in the authenticity of their multiplicity through the poetic medium. We don’t want to hear these stories from our master “griots” alone; we want to hear from those mastering their art, too. Hence, we aim at publishing new and emerging poets. We also welcome the works of established poets in order to encourage the poetic genius of those mastering poetic art. We prize original works that conform to, break or reinvent conventions. Again, we accept reviews and critical essays on poetry. We also accept powerful art works and photographs that make us appreciate the "poetry" in everything.