Keywords: Grief, Mourning, Black Poets
Content Notes: Allusion to loss of a loved one
Prompt: The poet writes "For me, grief is not always a singular emotional state following some kind of traumatic event but, rather, an ongoing mindset. The fortunate have an innate death denying function: to live happily, they pretend they or their loved ones will not die. Sometimes, I lack such a function and believe the opposite is true: to live happily, one must embrace mortality. I suppose, too, I’m obsessed with the primitive and problematic idea of anthropocentrism. So that worked its way into the poem as well." Write about something humans don't get right, and who or what we could look to to learn.
