Sometimes I hear his snort
smell his fart
drop a food morsel
on the floor
expecting him to come
and find it
he stopped on his own
pulmonary embolism
cremation ashes return
Irreplaceable pet
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NaPoWriMo prompt on a pet. Deuce was irreplaceable.
an elegy for Saul
After the death of the prophet Samuel
Saul
(abandoned by God)
no visions in prophesy or dream
the kingdom snatched from his hand
with the Philistines about to attack
Saul went to the witch of Endor anyway
surely you are Saul who has come to kill me said the witch who recognized him even in disguise (it is hard to fool a witch)
Saul swore to his God (who had abandoned him) he would not kill the witch
She conjured the spirit of prophesy
raised Samuel out of the grave
sent the king into battle knowing of his death
and that of his son
all that remained to him
was death
you’ve stood for so long
swayed by wind
a dance in forest
habitat
home
life maker
today you are a resource
put on trucks
and roll away
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NaPoWriMo prompt
When your mother dies
you go there
no need to hurry
her voice turned stone
There are arrangements
to be made
coffin size or cremation
contact the living
Church folk feed us
a cube of ham falls
on my father’s tie
it looks like a tie tack
Then death parades on
a cold lament
drives past fields
into the finish
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NaPoWriMo Day 3 prompt
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