Walking in the Sebastopol Cemetery - Dian Hardy

[Larry Robinson]

"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
    - Wendell Berry

> On Apr 17, 2023, at 9:54 AM, Larry Robinson <Lrobpoet at sonic.net> wrote:
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> Walking in the Sebastopol Cemetery
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> I wanted to walk, washing my face in the morning dew and thus
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> entered the burying ground, the cemetery, that place of
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> remembrance, 
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> Where the birds sing only sad songs.
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> Where the small pink flowers lift wan faces from the 
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> heavy-eyed lawns.
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> Twenty football fields of acid green grass and banks of
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> backroads and their dry grasses,
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> and trees like nursery rhymes gone wrong and my favorites,
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> the oldest graves,
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> toppling, mossed, in their recondite leafiness,
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> And beneath all this, the dead,
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> facing the morning sun in perpetually bequeathed hopes.
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> 	- Dian Hardy
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