An Epilogue Poem by Timmy Angel Naylor

An Epilogue

There was a mystic, antique maggot
In the ochre eye
Of a man who played reeds on the burial mound.
And an eel in the ditch
Where the farmer's girl swam with frogspawn in her hair.
In pride I would not be entwined with either,
But in my grave discern That I was ever carnage
Of a sly, relentless worm.

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