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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