Grieving Epiphany, by Sean Ewing

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Grieving Epiphany is a collection of poems organized by grief as it is lived, not resolved. The poems are a meditation on what comes after, on what remains to be done when explanations falter and consolation feels frail. They take place in memory and the body, in weather and the rooms of the everyday, following the way love continues to make demands long after absence has set in. There is no rush to resolution. The speaker remains with the weight of what is not to be repaired, giving sorrow its name without making it spectacle. In the face of this, silence becomes not the absence but the formative thing. It hones perception, changes language, asks of faith and endurance. The poems here are restrained but not remote, honest but not sentimental, tender but without reprieve. Grieving Epiphany considers the nature of what it means to stay with, to remember faithfully, and to carry forward what cannot be made whole but also cannot be let go. Sean’s poems have a way of capturing the essence of life through stirring imagery and raw emotion, weaving themes of nature’s connection to the human soul, the struggles we all face, and the triumphs we experience. In each piece, Sean allows us to see his world, and with it, invites us to step into the calm of a quiet moment, the power of endurance, and the elegance of humility. Sean has been published in Dulcet Literary Magazine, The Writers Journal, Silk Road Review, and The Gilded Weathervane.