PICKINGS
Poetry from NHI publications
| JILL & SYLVIA |
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| (Heptonstall Churchyard — August 24th 1999) |
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A wind too chill for this late August evening blowing on overgrown graves weed-filled — neglected except for just a few your own amongst them. For Jill — for Sylvia a few choice flowers, the earth kept clear with dates inscribed lifespans identical just thirty-one brief years; the one — the famous one left this enactment of her own volition, the other fighting her dying to the end. Wind bends the sycamores and tosses fireweed widowed of its flowers; it blows the fluffy seeds — to other fields — to other worlds. |
| IAN M. EMBERSON |
| from Aabye issue C Next poem Previous poem |
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