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(For those who mourn).

Good-Byes In The Rain

Standing like breathing statues at a burial
Gray light suffuses the sentinel cemetery trees
Faces back-lit half-cast by the swirling shadowverse
As the rain fell like years drenching clothes to the bone,

Blackbirds stood on movie-set shivering wet branches
Talking like bit-part character actors in some obscure off Broadway play
Out on the roadway a moving van parked, engine idling, waiting
For a woman with a secret map marked, "Routes Unknown"

You turned to me just as last rites echoed into an eternal vacuum,
Like two lovers embracing, we said our good-byes .

Poetry by Chaucer Whethers