20 January 2007 | Vol. 6, No. 4
Visitations
–for Mary
You died in spring.
I go in fall,
not to the grave but
past the hog farm where
you lived one year,
to a plain
dotted with baled hay.
I go there simply because the mountains
rise and the sun
warms all that has been gathered.
About the author:
Mark Jackley is a business writer in the Washington, DC, area. His work has appeared in various journals and his chapbook, Brevities, is forthcoming from Ginninderra Press.
For further reading:
Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 6, No. 4, where "Visitations" ran on January 20, 2007. List other work with these same labels: poetry, elegy.
