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Regarding A Corpse
February 6, 2021

Regarding a corpse
at the bottom of a ravine,
I wonder if it’s mine.

I wonder if as it tumbled,
sinews tearing like tissue
soaked in another’s tears,

it felt my pain. I wonder
if there is relief in not-
feeling, not-being: absence.

I see no headstones, nothing
to mark a life, to reveal who
the corpse belonged to.

Was it held hostage,
a bouquet torn from the branch
bleeding into its vase?

Did it find what it sought
at the bottom of a ravine,
or did it recall, too late,

the dog-eared novel, the unread
poems by the bed—how a body
can leap without falling?

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