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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Mike Dillon


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Pioneer Cemetery

Dusk. The last robin carols.
The wooden, roughly shaped cross
is firmly in place

above the empty grave's dank soil
awaiting morning
and a roughly shaped coffin

to be lowered alongside
the tenanted graves of his compeers
who've already made the circuit

around the stars
before returning home
through earth's dark door.