Monday, November 10, 2025

I went to the cemetery of unmarked graves
looking for a friend who knows
their names and places
to walk with and remember.

He was absent--I felt he might
be gone for good.  Without a guide,
I climbed the paths of bone-filled hills.

I don't know the names or their places,
but I know the spirit of this place,
its rhythm and emerging crests,
angles added by this tortured continent,
its heaving body.

I know this pocket of recycled cells
cooling between raw trees
and uncaptured breezes.

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