Tract by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation
Death is pushed to the margins in modern life. There is much drama about the funeral, but this often remains external and superficial. Our consumerist society has lost the sense of ritual and wisdom necessary to acknowledge this rite of passage. The person who has entered the voyage of death needs more in-depth care.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
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Forest Hill Memorial Gardens
October 3, 2020
A rumbling dancing under my feet.
A hearse driving in reverse, accompanied by a myriad of cars flooding into the cemetery.
The tent overhead as I stand in the middle, my hair growing back thick & woolly as my thick locs fall over my face once again.
Like a sinkhole the dirt falls into a pit & your casket
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