The man, body and stranger arrive to a mesa. They don’t up.<\/p>\n
The stranger says this place is just his people’s burial ground. But sacred all the same.<\/p>\n
We take our hands to dig. A spot for this body to rest at last. It is a slow duty.<\/p>\n
The sand shifts and slides, tumbling back to the hole<\/p>\n
We are done at last<\/p>\n
The body will live forever in a hole 6’\u00d71’\u00d74′.<\/p>\n
Til the flesh rots and the bones eventually rise. Bleached by deaert sun.<\/p>\n
The next tim3 someone finds this body she may be 1 whitened skull.<\/p>\n
Protruding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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