Tuesday, 14 July 2020

FROM A CEMETERY BENCH





in the earth
this marsh-close clay

the dead lay
some not even bones now

tucked away
&
love broken

headstones have little to say
but

the fallen berries
tucked 
in
lacquered crevices

make a playful squirrels day


~


it comes back to this -

scratch
the blank
wide open

&
be as water
with the ink

bent & coping on the cemetery bench

every 
laughing
groundhog day





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from smithsonianmag.com


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