Completing The Pattern Poem by Michael Burch

Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch

Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life's compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here—among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky's azure,
pale blue once like their eyes, will gleam blood-red
at last when sunset staggers to the door
of each white mausoleum, to inquire—
What use, O things of erstwhile loveliness?

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