top of page
sanchopanzalit

Memorial Day, Hartford, 2019

Garth Myers


It shouldn’t take a war to remember the dead

It shouldn’t even take a day

The dead are all around us below us above

Us inside us.

On Cedar Hill Hepburn and Hall

Lie with them all,

Wells Welles Williams Wallace

Fischer Forester Friedman Fernandez

D’Agostino Dimitri De la Garza.


I could read the names to you one by one

Mother father daughter sister brother son

But you already know them, us

Inside us. It shouldn’t take the dead

To remember the dying.

6 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

Home Ground

For Margaret John Long The house and land of childhood meant home to me. Every inch of house the acre of land I knew completely,...

In April

for my mother Ruth Friedland, died April 13, 2018 Paula Panzarella The month of your death, green stalks pierce through ground. In a week...

Anachronism

for Brittany Watts Anita Durkin In a throat like a needle, Air is vibration is delicate trills Absorbed in earth. And the men whistle Few...

Comments


bottom of page