Thank you for Being

Cemetery work
After dazed and confused
Trimmed around the graves
Nice and tight
Til my work is done, fine
Now sit back and enjoy
The wind through the pines
Of a life, and some others too
The pines are gone now
The hill is still there
So are the graves
Smiling back
Blissful quiet.

In memory of Sander Questad,
1892 -- 1983, Baltic Township

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A stray poet puts his cliché existential dread to the page, as though it were special.

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How does the little cradle
improve his shining tail,
and pow the waters of the nile
on every golden scale?

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
how neatly spread his claws,
and welcomes little fishes in,
with gently smiling jaws

Do you hear
the winds of autumn
rubbing softly against the doors
scent of osmanthus
among lessons and tasks dullsome

Do you hear
the gentle drizzle
tapping on the windowsills
a playful chime of invitation
in the school hall I sit still

• and you cannot know I am not here
• both the location and speedI cannot see clear
• of particles so tinyof short-lived ideas
• with enough energy they are freedthat come and disappear

I watch and listen
my mind drifting away
like an electron
with velocity flying astray

• and with that concludes our lecture todaywas that it?
• should you have any questionstwo hours sure is brief
• come and asksorry, professor
• do not be afraidI was never here

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Today's #poem: "Between"

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