Dream Obituary Prompt

This prompt came from a dream where my sibling and I discovered a Wikipedia article about our dad.

In a dream, you discover a Wikipedia article/a text about someone who has passed/a species that no longer exists/an unknown science phenomenon. What do you discover, and how do you process it through poetry?

Editor’s note: read about the funeral Iceland held for Ok glacier in 2019.

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Dusti RW Levy (they/them) writes about love, longing, grief, and ghosts from the Louisiana prairie. They are the founder and editor of delicate emissions poetry zine, on the staff of Thirteen Bridges Review and The McNeese Review, and an MFA/MA student in poetry at McNeese State University.