In another poem, the protagonist travels to a sacred waterfront in pursuit of a white elephant.  
In one poem by this author, the narrator wishes that the title figure be reborn as his son and asks that he can look after his family as the title figure did.  In another poem, the protagonist travels to a sacred waterfront in pursuit of a white elephant.  This poet of Prayer to the Dead Father wrote a poem in which quotes Ezra Pound with the repeating line "the mortar is not yet dry" and a poem which describes a dream "smoldering in a cave" and asks the earth to unbind him.  Much of his work of this poet of Siren and Elegy for Alto was published in the literary journal Black Orpheus.  FTP, name this poet of Heavensgate, Limits, and Path of Thunder.
In one poem by this author, the narrator wishes that the title figure be reborn as his son and asks that he can look after his family as the title figure did.  
Christopher Okigbo