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Remedy For Orpheus (Poem)
they never told me when you died
the day the place unknown to me
they never told me where you lay
the rite itself I heard described
because I do not know these things
you have wandered with me through the years
not a ghost nor a revenant
no returner from death’s realm
simply as you were, mortal just as I
growing old by my side
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Gravestone (Poem)
hidden testament to mortality
this rock sitting beneath the trees
no writing upon its face
it marks unknown dead
all grief has passed
gone deep into the ground
nothing left but a silent witness
and a few who give nod at the sight
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Not Coal Dust (Poem)
the night I walk away
bones will drop as I go
brittle broken fractured things
yellowed by relentless age
these will never dance
nor will they rise
detritus from a discarded life
throw them to the midden
or let them litter where they lie
a final marker of where I tread
