of All Souls

yesterday for fame
and us
today only for us
the names in masses of our own
if
we add others
too

so that a spirit of remembrance is built
lifted especially today
more
than by name
I think
by evening meals shared at gravesides
with
ones we knew by day
and
should believe are live with us
as they have been
with angels

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photo by Boston Public Library on Unsplash
“Marigolds” by Ellen T. Fisher