elegy to tombstones

Written by Kurn Sundaram

our fingers / brushing 
across your skin— tense at 
first, elegizing at last / names 
at the vigil slurred & smudged / little
fingerprints in their places / nameless
nobodies— the tombstone quick 
in its erosion / quick, till it’s all rock & none
body— none human, quick / our palms across
your hunched torso / two twins, collapsing in
this divine embrace / each, eager to bury the
other— two morticians for all things
unremembered.


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