PICKINGS
Poetry from NHI publications
JILL & SYLVIA |
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(Heptonstall Churchyard August 24th 1999) |
A wind too chill for this late August evening blowing on overgrown graves weed-filled neglected except for just a few your own amongst them. For Jill for Sylvia a few choice flowers, the earth kept clear with dates inscribed lifespans identical just thirty-one brief years; the one the famous one left this enactment of her own volition, the other fighting her dying to the end. Wind bends the sycamores and tosses fireweed widowed of its flowers; it blows the fluffy seeds to other fields to other worlds. |
IAN M. EMBERSON |
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