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Poetry

Cemeteries #1

By Mark Flotow

Compact towns across the landscape
Without through roads, infrastructure,
Only the sparest superstructure;

Open-gated communities
Where visitors are expected
Yet are never anticipated.

All welcomed during daylight hours,
Yet often the fox and horned owl
Seek there the serenity they crave.

Occasional fresh-cut flowers,
Miniature flags appear next
To shaped stones and solemn-shared green space.

Full names and scant demographics
Etched in mute granites and marbles,
Simple summations of complex lives

In a garden of index cards:
Filed, never out of order;
A deck expanding, never shrinking;

With no births or out-migration,
No town mayor, just citizens
Returning to the clay of Adam.

Originally published in Epitaphs Magazine #11, March 2012.

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