memory is a pool of water. an ocean drowning us into its depth. & a heart is a fist of salt in a sea. the body, a cicada of hyacinth blossoming in a delta. unhinged, i break into spider legs, songs pouring out of me like memories, like water, like everything leaving the mouth to become a mouth. a gulp of funneled throats. the song is eating me alive again. [water/memory] we wade closer to the shore. memory and I. and water. and song. because some songs are drowning fishes. & some memories are baits sunk into the bottomless pit to haul us into a school of oblivion where O2 depletes to a 0%. some memories are songs. some songs are oceans. some oceans are memories.
songs of water
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, TPC XI, is a medical student, poet, essayist & Assistant Editor of Fiery Scribe Review from Nigeria. He & his works are featured/ forthcoming in The Republic, Electric Literature, 20.35 Africa, Isele Magazine, A Long House, Brittle Paper, Fantasy Magazine, Poet Lore, Tab Journal, Poetry Wales & elsewhere. An Adroit Journal Summer Program & SprinNG Writers' Fellow, his works were selected for inclusion in the Annual Outstanding Young Writers Anthology (Paper Crane, 2023).