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# Regarding A Corpse
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/regarding-a-corpse/
- Published: 2021-02-06T14:29:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T05:45:45.000Z
- Description: 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?
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry

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?