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Sacrifice

by The Cheesesellers Wife

Tucked into a corner of the woods
a handful of graves gleamin pale sun
a single date on each
tells of explosive death
in the now grassy crater close by.

We imagine our dead lying
whole under the earth
perhaps not
here.

Copyright © 2018 Kim Whysall-Hammond

https://thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com/

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Posted on November 11, 2018 at 9:40 AM in Kim, Poetry   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL

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