Blank Headstones on Display
(Sorry for missing my post yesterday - today’ll be a two-fer)
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Blank Headstones on Display
If what is engraved on a headstone
Is dead than the dead are
Whatever is reflected in these
Blank headstones on display.
My car, in passing, has passed
Away, as have the gray September
Clouds and the blue of the new
Super Walmart across the way.
One day a name will make this
Or that headstone specific
But for now whatever comes
Before their obsidian mirrors,
In being reflected there,
Is memorialized, if only
For a moment, and one
Need not have done
Anything to deserve it
Apart from happening
To be passing through
The west side of Galena, Illinois.