Arno Vale

Arno Vale Bristol’s Necropolis City of the Dead Where the dead and living In the daytime co-exist. The path leads full circle Around the tomb stones, chapels and trees Tombstone white and bright in the sun The trees decorated, woollen colours Booted families trudge through the trees Others visit the café and the gift shop All this life in the garden of the dead It seems almost pagan, in a Christian way Reminding us of their marriage The winter sun shines without warmth Through the trees, the leaves still on the ground Solitude without loneliness that is what is here The dead not buried and forgotten; But, with nature and the living instead.