#3:\u00a0 On walks during the pandemic<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is a cemetery across the street<\/p>\n
And when this started, I\u2019d walk there for exercise<\/p>\n
Before the dead consumed us, these dead stood guard<\/p>\n
Perhaps they knew what was coming but couldn\u2019t warn us.<\/p>\n
It was wonderful, wandering the steep paths among the quiet<\/p>\n
Getting lost in the carefully arranged geometry of the departed,<\/p>\n
With only the occasional interruption of reality<\/p>\n
When the person coming toward you drifted to the opposite side<\/p>\n
Out of fear.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d stop at the random grave, preferring the older headstones<\/p>\n
Wondering who had died at nineteen in 1943<\/p>\n
Or who had been lost at six months in 1890.<\/p>\n
Was it just time and circumstance?<\/p>\n
Sacrificed to a war, consequences of medical inequalities,<\/p>\n
Perhaps victims of a crime?<\/p>\n
Tombstones are elusive storytellers<\/p>\n
That give us only the ending<\/p>\n
So our imaginations run wild.<\/p>\n
So what do these residents say to those who come to join them?<\/p>\n
The cemetery was quickly closed<\/p>\n
And we can\u2019t see the surge happening behind the gates<\/p>\n
We are no different than them<\/p>\n
Our lives, once ended, as mysterious as when we began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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