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Posting Graveyards

Tom Roby

Somewhere, sometime, someone delivers
a letter to a graveyard, pushes it through
a mailbox slot in the fence where it waits
until the breeze takes it to graveside, to
tomb, to mausoleum, for the dead to read,
to find what’s in it for them.

No one knows why anyone writes
such a letter, puts it into an envelope
addressed to whom it may concern,
and drops it off at the graveyard gate
at sundown. No one, that is, except
the dead, who are pleased someone
shows concern for them.

Everyone, except the dead, must think it
useless to write a letter to anyone who
no longer exists. Yet some things are so
important that they must be written down
even if they are never read because
if everyone were to see themselves
as dead—smaller and clearer as through
the opposite end of a telescope—

then we would all understand the importance
of writing and hand delivering our letters
to a graveyard gate and for patience
to await the favor of a reply.

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