Hallowed silence surrounds her: fallen stars flickering amid mist-frosted grass and autumn leaves in their myriad faded hues, bruised petals and baubles strewn...
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]]>Hallowed silence surrounds her:
fallen stars flickering amid mist-frosted grass
and autumn leaves in their myriad faded hues,
bruised petals and baubles strewn
at the base of each cold marble plinth–
all the familiar remembrances,
the bittersweet farewells she knows by heart.
She wanders ghost-like among these tombs,
an unseen witness to mute devotion and grief,
carrying the holiness of this singular night
within her heart until time circles back upon itself,
an exquisitely inconspicuous ouroboros
that brings it all around again,
the gifts the living offer to the beloved dead.
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]]>in the abandoned garden, she waits,
cold marble lips,
feet melding with the block of stone
that gives her the semblance of life,
heart that has never beat buried deep.
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]]>in the abandoned garden, she waits,
cold marble lips,
feet melding with the block of stone
that gives her the semblance of life,
heart that has never beat buried deep.
moths visit her at dusk,
brushing powdery kisses
upon the graceful curve of her collarbone;
spiders burrow and breed in the cracks
time has carved into her hardened skin
while summer rain traces mute longing
down her cheeks.
from her lofty perch, the garden is an ocean,
waving golden grass gone to seed,
heavy clustered blooms forming islands
in shades of violent color
(blood, bone, bruise)
like a warning against trespassers,
against anyone who would dare awaken
her still-silent heart.
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