Boxes
- Boxes in the ground?
- What a score that is.
- Waiting for the horses drawing caissons,
- but the rest of the family is already scattered around.
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- Stones of the mothers.
- Stones of the fathers.
- Stones of children who died too young.
- And stones turned black with soot.
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- Where are the trees?
- Where are the roots?
- The grass is dead and dying,
- and there are no new green shoots.
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- It's a dark day for the dead and dying.
- Though some things glow at night.
- When the cemeteries are full of stones.
- It is too late to set things right.
Christopher H. Holte
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