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Friday, August 30, 2013

ELEGIAC LINES

For a young poet who committed suicide

Where have you gone?  I followed the signs
You disappeared into labyrinths
Of crystals and words, leaving behind
Faded horizons and sunset tints,
Mist on a darkening lake, and wisps
Of whispering in empty rooms.

None of it is real now.  Where I am,
The field mice run, and crickets shriek,
Overripe pomegranates split, break,
Dribble pink seeds that the rats eat,
And nightly the owls strike.  So it
Comes down to feathers, fur, and bones.

Sometimes, in my mind, I go alone
To a Kentucky graveyard, and I stand
With empty hands beside your stone,

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