Gravestone Poem by Jared Carter

Gravestone



What can no longer be
reaches out to me,

accepts my silence, knows
kinship with the snows

lately gathered here,
only to disappear—

ciphers written where,
intractable as air,

a touch still leaves a trace
of something unerased.



First published in Lucid Rhythms.

Thursday, May 18, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: absence,grave,mourning
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