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enjoy this Brandon S. Roy writing in the Down in the Dirt free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Ghost (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2011 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book Ghost

Neighborhood Cemetery

Brandon S. Roy

For today, the sky streams into a black hole like blood.
There is no hope, we have given up.

Six black candles sitting against the fence
surrounding a red graceful doll..

It’s eyes open, this is a wondrous thing

Smell the incense candles burn, they make
puddles of wax that slowly shape into words

Follow the fence flowers, they will lead you to a gate
open it like a beautiful woman.

The cemetery is your vessel,
the grass is fabric, worn and flat

And the men in dark suits are still,
stiffing up for the party here.

Behind the stone there is a shut-off
world of gentle bodies that hum the night.

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