Saturday, 30 December 2023

Stone to stone

Graves half buried in snow

— their greyness like exposed rocks

on streaked mountainside —

resolute mourners shovelling

the white compact down

to the hard ground

to place photophoroi

— however diaphanous 

and dim the lanterns be —

to show the living

the place where

they chose to

remember

and pray

 

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