Unearthed
Linda Hindman

I do not like to think of my friend
Boxed up
Closed underground
No room to stretch
Or roll over.
What if we are wrong
About the spirit
Having left
And should wonder
Before pushing someone under?
Do they writhe trapped
Like the cocooned pupas of sphinx moths
And bag worms hanging in the stinking cedar?
Raise my body
Over feathered poles
And send me up in ashes flying
Arms wide as sky.

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