BONEYARD

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Shovel the earth &

shovel it deep

Lower into the sepulchre

Surround the burrowed

space w/ lilacs & eulogies--

Family tears

Seal the earth up again

for a child had been

consigned to rest here

For another child

embittered

had shown him his most

glorified toy from youth

his lifelong phobia:

The receiving ...

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Musing In Ilkley Cemetery

No more on the hill the Middleton clan,
     now resting apart in municipal plot.
He to the left with the Romans and Catholics,
     she to the right among Protestant stock.

He passes his time amongst sisters and Irish,
     she spends her days with the cream of the mill.
And were they to rise, and meet on the pathway,
     they could look through the Ash t...

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a grated gate by midnight's light
once fell upon a sorry sight
as rain washed out the scarlet stain
the skies bowed down to hear the pain

a voice without a body heard
the sordid tale its waist did gird
one witness found, torn leaf by leaf
Creation's glory sank to grief

a tale no word was writ nor said
into the ground the silence bled
a soaked and orphaned qui...

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