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a Graveyard Visit

John Grey

I went looking for people
and what did I find but heavy gray stones.
I was told they were all around us
but I could only imagine something other
crumpled in their coffins,
knuckles pressed tight to ribs,
grinning skulls, those heads without the trimmings.
I was prepared for grief
but the sheer absence of parents, siblings, friends,
from this world
was a bewildering concept
no amount of plaques or cenotaphs
or blissful angels could explain satisfactorily to me.
I stood there beneath the coming gray sky,
did not weep for anyone but myself,
this cold, hard body, six feet deep in strangers.

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