POETRY Reading: Cenotaph, by Melanie Bryant
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2m 11s
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
Needing you still, I come when I can,
this time to the labyrinth
to share this circular path.
There’s no one on the trail today
as I make my way
a shroud of fog settles in.
These trees were strangers
stark with winter their bare limbs
bearing a striking silhouette; pilgrims bent in prayer.
But now I know them well—
a weeping cherry, a slouching yew;
three graceful cedars standing tall.
Weather has erased the names from their plaques, but there remains:
In memory of; In memory of; In loving memory of
a beloved husband; now six years gone.
Listen. The cedars whisper vespers
as I make my way around the outer edge;
the bricks are slick with moss and sound beneath my feet.
When I pass again, a rotting bench where no one sits and
through the trees, a flicker of neon yellow; hulking husks—
empty school buses, lined and waiting in a vacant lot.
I tell you; it’s still as a graveyard—
the enduring quiet of this liminal place.
Alpha and Omega.
At the still point, I pause to rest;
everything slows, quiets even more, but
nothing stops; nothing ebbs my ache for you.
Still needing you, I come when I can;
again and again, back to this labyrinth.
Look. I am the yearning woman circling this path.
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