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memorial day

Charles Ardinger


Not immune to graveyard magic: stand for instance
Where my friend’s boy, dead the day he was born, is buried.
Under a faultless blue sky and a breeze like a phantom lullaby stroking
Yesterday’s flags as softly as fingers in an infant’s hair:

Things

Change

For instance and may be forgotten as a storefront where
The shadows glowed once, throbbed with passionate voices
And then reverted to simple darkness and the silence
Of a crowd of shrugging standers by, myself included:

Strange

Things

Don’t last for instants: gone in a day like my friend’s boy,
Disappeared like a cloud in a rainbow, moving north and east
Like friends I’ll miss: yes, I remember, not immune
CTo a future that looks like a wall of ice on a day in June.

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