eulogy

you knew secrets they say:

where streams came from and rocks

how mountains could sing kyries

when slapped by waves for a million days

you knew that birds once had no wings

you knew the song that old bones sing

how fish found graves quite near to sky

how trilobytes were kind to die.

even skeletons looked sweet 

in your hands.

one can bend time with such knowing

and tickle death with those cards showing.

hearts you saw among those bones

the naked rock singing.

moss and earth, simply skin

you scraped aside to see

what is

deeper

beneath 

soil

they say orpheus knew such things:

it was he, they say,who made rocks sing

but he was more enmeshed in flesh

than you i think.

when i hear stories of what you knew

it isn't orpheus I see,

i think your soul was more the she

eurydice

stepping down  

stone by stone

one

two

three

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