Gravestone Poem by Jared Carter

Jared Carter

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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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