Cemetery - June 30, 2001

darkness pervades
the ground, cloaked with a saturnine pall

speak to me
noble taciturn stones

tell me
who came before
and why they fell asunder

were it greed or sloth or passion
weakness of the flesh
that tore them from this world

teach me
their secrets preserved in the ruddy earth
so that i may longer keep my vessel above the ground

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