Study:

Grave Rubbings

Vigil

There
we were
newborn
&
watching

a hill
a rainbow
a dream

We were all born
known and
unknown.

She
made us
for earth,
alone.

We won’t say
forgotten.
We won’t say
safe.
We won’t say
unmourned.

Lest we
Lest we
Always learn

We were all born.

Beloved mother.
Teacher, poet.
Bride.
We are listening

What vision quest do I go in search of, blindly, and how to tell it?

What vision quest do I go in search of, blindly, and how to tell it?

She Died as She Lived

Unknown
wife of
time.

Unloved
mother
of
thunder.

Infant daughter
of
why.

Nameless travelers
called                 home

These pioneers died alone

I don’t want to pry open the region’s secrets.

I don’t want to pry open the region’s secrets.

Replica

Born
Born
Died
Died

Born
Died
Born
Died
Born

Died
We won’t say “goodbye”

Born
Born
Born
Born

Died

Not dead but sleepeth.

Safe in the arms
of          earth.

Instead, I want to listen...

Instead, I want to listen...

Garland

Nameless
land
gone.

To unloved
arms

And
to
eyes

Here rests a
garland
of
wings.

A garland
of
snow.

Bless these
flowers.
Bless these
heavens.

Gone gone gone

to the spirit land.

...to the wind’s raging.

...to the wind’s raging.


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