The Dash Between
I do like cemeteries — there it is.
I like the stones, the names, the living sending
off the dead (they said they wanted peace) —
a number, another number, the end.
But still, the stories in the stones rise
like colored smoke from the barest of clues.
“Dear Husband” — maybe truth, maybe lies,
maybe nothing of the kind.
© Michael Fleming
Brattleboro, Vermont
February 2010
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