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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GRAVE IN WINTER, by CHARD POWERS SMITH
First Line: Like tremulous spirits the snow flutters down through the
Last Line: Melt in the stream.
Subject(s): Graves; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Like tremulous spirits the snow flutters down through the
Last Line: Melt in the stream.
Subject(s): Graves; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones
Like tremulous spirits the snow flutters down through the hemlocks,
More gently than sound.
There she is sleeping alone in the grave as we left her,
Calm in the ground.
Out of lost silent aeons she rose to a moment of being,
Coming to birth.
Now she lies as we left her there, waiting the long journey homeward,
Back through the earth.
When the spring comes to wither the blankets of funeral snow-petals,
She will wake from her dream,
And move into silence, a little more slowly than snow-flakes
Melt in the stream.
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